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  • adjective Rousseauian.

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Examples

  • But, by "peace" I would mean not just an absence of war but a return to what you might call in Rousseauesque terms "harmony".

    World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness 2011

  • On the question of what creates the moral man, education v. genetics, the Spice Girls took a more Platonic than Rousseauesque view: ` We don't think man's born as a blank sheet of paper, innocent and noble. '

    Spice Girls back sceptics on Europe 2007

  • With this Rousseauesque benediction, Bogle completely elides his own role as trade negotiator.

    Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81 2000

  • His egomaniacal behaviour and his almost Rousseauesque fear and suspicion of others were only the external manifestations of his inner discrepancies.

    The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Clearly, the anti-GM lobby that rails against industrial, large-scale systems of food production and advocates small, Rousseauesque farms as an alternative cannot really fulfil this grand mission.

    The Financial Express 2010

  • Now, some societies are acutely prone to influence by lobbies, special interest groups, particularistic interests, while others, such as Sri Lanka, Russia and many states of today's Latin America are more driven by a quasi-Rousseauesque General Will.

    Kottu 2009

  • Now, some societies are acutely prone to influence by lobbies, special interest groups, particularistic interests, while others, such as Sri Lanka, Russia and many states of today's Latin America are more driven by a quasi-Rousseauesque General Will.

    Kottu 2009

  • Rousseauesque notion that the general outlook is encapsulated by one person or party - to the exclusion of all other interests outside that of the ruling formation. "

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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