Medieval & Modern Philosophy · Early modern
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Genevan who said 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains': natural goodness, inequality and amour-propre, the social contract and the general will, Emile and education, and his influence on the French Revolution and Romanticism.
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Prereqs: Hobbes; Locke. Next: Kant; Hegel. Sources: Rousseau, *Discourse on Inequality* (1755), *The Social Contract* and *Emile* (1762); Leo Damrosch, *Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius* (2005).Next: 1. Life