Abstract

Critics have often been deeply impressed by Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality while finding one or another of Rousseau’s key concepts to be implausible. This essay examines three of these concepts: the state of nature, natural goodness, and perfectibility. It argues that these three concepts are so closely linked to each other that they are virtually identical.

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