# The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Rousseau

Date: 2002

## The fact

SEP’s Rousseau entry is a completed public-philosophy instrument independent of Gutenberg. The dated carrier is plato.stanford.edu as a scholarly access page.

## Context

A secular encyclopedia entry is a different access path from a novel. Both can be used in classrooms.

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a Dijon prize.

A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a Dijon prize.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/rousseau/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-sep-entry