Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have begun an introduction to the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the following:

http://philosophers-corner.blogspot.com/2007/05/jean-jacques-rousseau-1712-1778.html

Rousseau is essential reading for anyone serious about what may be involved in living consciously (not because he practised it but because he was privileged to gain a profound insight into it and managed to get some of it down on paper before realising that, like most of us, he couldn't live up to his own ideals).