The most useful and least advanced of all human knowledge seems to me to be that of man.
Social contract theory
The most useful and least advanced of all human knowledge seems to me to be that of man.
Social contract theory
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, Preface
1755
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