According to the introduction on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau "proposed radically unsettling ideas about human nature, justice, and progress that

According to the introduction on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau "proposed radically unsettling ideas about human nature, justice, and progress that disrupted the dominant Enlightenment thinking of the moment and helped to spark the Romantic movement" (380). After reading the excerpts from Confessions in our textbook, choose one event in Rousseau's life and explain how Rousseau's view of the event embodies Romantic ideals.