I wish I had read this question sooner, for it is excellent!
In the field of psychology and education, Jean Jacques Rousseau has an amazing similarity with Sigmund Freud in their views of the individual and society: They both basically state a believe in the "basic Id"- However, while Freud believed that we are all born inherently bad and society has the chance to turn us into fitting citizens, JJ Rousseau thought the opposite:That we have an inherently good nature and society corrupts us.
In not so many words: Society makes us bad because of the plentitude of exposure we get to potentially damaging influences.
(its funny that Rousseau would take a stand in behaviorism, especially coming from a person who put his kids in an orphanage, was a bad teacher, and had immense flaws, yet- his philosophy transformed our field and continues doing so)
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