Chapter 3 of Trueman’s, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, discusses Rousseau. Trueman makes the point that great thinkers have what might be called a thought “genealogy.” For Rousseau the individual was relatively pure and it was society that forced the individual into sinful acts. This is because it is society that creates the rules by which a person must fit in. Societies rules are contrary to a relatively pure human nature.