The discussion on the origins of inequality in the Second
Discourse continues. This lecture focuses on amour-propre, a
faculty or a disposition that is related to a range of
psychological characteristics such as pride, vanity, and
conceit. The Social Contract is subsequently discussed with an
emphasis on the concept of freedom and how one's desire to
preserve one's freedom is often in conflict with that of others
to protect and defend their own. General will becomes Rousseau's
solution to the problem of securing individual liberty. As one
of the world's great universities, Yale traces its roots back to
the early 1640s when colonial clergyman sought to establish a
school in order to continue the tradition of European education
within the Americas. Yale has now grown to educate over 11,000
students from over 100 countries on a 310-acre campus in New
Haven, Connecticut. Within the school's 260 buildings are over
2,000 undergraduate programs in 65 departments taught by a
distinguished faculty. As Academic Earth's