Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland-died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is famous for reconceiving the social contract as a compact between the individual and a collective “ general will” aimed at the common good and reflected in the laws of an ideal state and for maintaining that existing society rests on a false social contract that perpetuates inequality and rule by the rich.

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