Iván Szelényi continues his Yale course Foundations of Modern Social Thought with a lecture on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, covering the general will, from vaccination mandates as an example of collective good overriding individual will, to the distinction between amour de soi, or self-love, and amour propre, self-love defined through others. He contrasts Rousseau's bourgeois individual with his ideal of the citizen. The second half turns to Rousseau's educational treatise Emile, where Szelényi lays out the claim that humans are born good and corrupted by society, and explains Rousseau's concept of negative education, which trains students to think rather than instructing them what to think. The lecture closes with Rousseau's account of how savages become social beings and his views on men, women, sexuality, and love. Chapter markers divide the hour into five distinct topics.