(Wikimedia Commons) Although he died 11 years before the French Revolution, Rousseau’s works have often been blamed for its excesses. And so, while Rousseau's Discourse treats human nature, his follow-up works Emile and On the Social Contract (both published in 1762) explore the sort of education and political order best suited to this nature. Like Plato and Machiavelli before him, Rousseau refused to separate concerns of politics and ethics from those of education. The Discourse on Inequality's conception of natural man – as uncorrupted by social institutions and systems of artificial distinction – sits in the background of Rousseau's later work, On the Social Contract.
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