Jacques Rousseau

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jacques Rousseau
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1971(1971-12-03)
Age	53
Birthplace	Cape Town
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Cape Town
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jacques Rousseau Biography

Jacques Rousseau is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on December 3, 1971 in Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Rousseau was born in Cape Town in 1971. He attended Stellenberg High School and the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he obtained a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and a MA in English.

Since 2008 his blog Synapses has focussed on secular issues in South Africa, and he is on the editorial board of International Humanist News. He was included on a panel of “top skeptic bloggers” who presented a Blogging Skepticism workshop at The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013 conference in Las Vegas organised by the James Randi Educational Foundation.

Rousseau lectures on critical thinking and ethics in the UCT Commerce Faculty’s School of Management Studies. Since his appointment to the UCT academic staff in the 1990s, he has served on various UCT committees including the Senate, the Senate Executive Committee, the Faculty of Commerce Readmission Appeals Committee and the Ethics in Research Committee. He currently serves on the University Information and Communication Technology Committee and the University Student Discipline Tribunal, and is the chairperson of the Academic Freedom Committee. He was elected to both the UCT Senate and Council for the four-year term of office from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2016.

Rousseau is an atheist, secularist, humanist, naturalist, materialist, freethinker, scientific sceptic and rationalist. In 2006 he established a local community of the Brights movement, which he describes as “an international movement which aims to promote the civic understanding and acknowledgement of the naturalistic world-view, which is free of supernatural and mystical elements”. In 2009 he founded the Free Society Institute to promote secularity, scientific reasoning, a naturalistic worldview and freedom of speech.

Jacques Rousseau Net Worth

Jacques Rousseau is one of the richest Academic from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacques Rousseau 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jacques André Rousseau (born 3 December 1971) is a South African academic, secular activist and social commentator.

He also participates in various research activities at UCT. In 2004 he became a member of the National Centre for the Study of Gambling, and from 2008 to 2012 he served as co-ordinator of its Academic Division at UCT which conducted research into gambling in South Africa on behalf of the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation. His current research relates to epistemic standards in science journalism, decision theory, business ethics and religious conflict.

He regularly contributes to public debates in the South African media. From March 2010 to June 2013, he was a regular contributor for the South African online newspaper the Daily Maverick. He has been interviewed on South African television channels M-Net, eTV and eNCA, and has been quoted in various news publications such as The Independent in the UK and the Financial Mail in South Africa. He has also written op-eds for local newspapers including the Cape Times, the Cape Argus, The Star, The Mercury and the Mail & Guardian.

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Jacques Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Jacques Rousseau celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

What is Rousseau's theory?

Rousseau�s theory of education emphasized the importance of expression to produce a well-balanced, freethinking child. He believed that if children are allowed to develop naturally without constraints imposed on them by society they will develop towards their fullest potential, both educationally and morally.

What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau known for?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the philosophical treatises A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762); the novels Julie; or, The New Eloise (1761) and Émile; or, On Education (1762); and the autobiographical Confessions (1782–1789), among other works.

What is Rousseau's most famous work?

The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality remains one of Rousseau’s most famous works, and lays the foundation for much of his political thought as it is expressed in the Discourse on Political Economy and Social Contract.

What is Rousseau's view of human nature?

Rousseau proclaimed the natural goodness of man and believed that one man by nature is just as good as any other. For Rousseau, a man could be just without virtue and good without effort. According to Rousseau, man in the state of nature was free, wise, and good and the laws of nature were benevolent.

How did Rousseau change the world?

Rousseau’s thought played an important role in promoting the notion of human rights , which is central to UNHCR’s work. Many previous philosophers, from Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius to the Englishman Hobbes, had conceived of rights in terms of the possession of power or of legal constructs within society.