This man discussed the "perfectibility" of man for a Dijon Academy essay contest, in which he claimed that the founder of civil society was the first man to say "this is mine" upon enclosing a plot of land. In one work he devised a girl named "Sophie," the title character's eventual wife, to make sexist arguments for raising women only to please men. This author of Discourse on Inequality argued that a people must legislate the "general will" to make society legitimate, and said "Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains." For 10 points,
This man discussed the "perfectibility" of man for a Dijon Academy essay contest, in which he claimed that the founder of civil society was the first man to say "this is mine" upon enclosing a plot of land. In one work he devised a girl named "Sophie," the title character's eventual wife, to make sexist arguments for raising women only to please men. This author of Discourse on Inequality argued that a people must legislate the "general will" to make society legitimate, and said "Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains." For 10 points, name this author of Emile: or On Education, a Swiss-born French Enlightenment philosophe who wrote The Social Contract.
This man discussed the "perfectibility" of man for a Dijon Academy essay contest, in which he claimed that the founder of civil society was the first man to say "this is mine" upon enclosing a plot of land.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau