Jean-Jacques Rousseau Was a Prolific Writer Whose Ideas Were Somewhat

question 27

Multiple Choice

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a prolific writer whose ideas were somewhat inconsistent, yet there was one central idea throughout his works: ________.

• A) that progress and civilization had corrupted mankind and alienated them from their natural goodness and purity
• B) that education would help society break the chains of the social contract
• C) that inequality was the natural state of humanity
• D) that the application of reason would solve all the problems of society
• E) that men and women needed to be equal before society could achieve full Enlightenment

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