" 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. 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