Conscience! Conscience! Divine instinct, immortal and celestial voice, sure guide of a being ignorant and limited, but intelligent and free; infallible judge of good and evil, which makes man like unto God!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Early Modern

Social contract theory

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Emile, or On Education, Book IV

Date / Period

1762

Category

Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5427/5427-h/5427-h.htm

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