Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution?
(A) Locke
(B) Rousseau
(C) Hegel
(D) Plato
Correct Answer : Rousseau
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam 2000
Explanation : Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. Rousseau, a Freemason, was interred as a national hero in the Pantheon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.
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