t the business of explaining how fundamental human associations are formed--and how they are not formed by established organizations.
Rousseau's view of how individuals in nature have the capacity to create optimal social structures can be compared to the Kantian view of the capacities of human reason. Kant, an exact contemporary of Rousseau, articulates such capacities in his Critique of Pure Reason. In that work, Kant explores intuition as a valid category and determinant of human knowledge and coherent or moral experience.
In other words, pure reason encounters practical experience and then seeks closure regarding the significance of what the experience reveals:
The same function which imparts unity to the various representations in one judgment imparts unity likewise to the mere synthesis of various representations in one intuition, and this unity may be called the pure concept of the understanding. The same understanding, by the same operations by which in concepts it achieves, through analytical unity, the logical form of a judgment, introduces als
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