Round 7: Tossup 5

This author may have originated an unattested anecdote of a princess saying “let them eat cake” in his Confessions. (-5[3])This author contrasted the primitive (15[1])amour de soi with the societally-instilled amour-propre. Mary Wollstonecraft attacked this philosopher’s claim that women should be (15[1])educated for men’s pleasure (15[1])from his book Emile. (15[1])This philosopher promoted laws that represent (-5[1])the (*) “general will” in a book that expands on his earlier Discourse on Inequality. That treatise by this philosopher claims that “man is born free, (10[1])and everywhere he (-5[1])is in chains.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this French political philosopher who wrote The Social Contract. (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[5]0[4])

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