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

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