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Rousseau. Formation. Man. Citizen. General Will.
The present work aims to understand the formation of man and citizen postulated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau from the analysis of the concept of the general will. For that, we used the methodology of bibliographic and documentary research combined with hermeneutics. In addition to understanding Rousseau's texts, we also appealed to a considerable number of commentators and interpreters of the thought of the Genevan thinker. This dissertation concludes by pointing to the meaning that the concept of the general will has in Rousseau's work, revealing an interpretative key to the formation of man and citizen, especially the one presented in Emílio.