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This 6 page paper takes a look at Rousseau's ideas about inequality and the social contract. Why the social contract is seen as a solution for man's woes is discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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important of these developments are, and why Rousseau believes that they culminate in people running headlong into the chains of a fraudulent social contract has more to do with
negativity than anything else. He explains that the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, simply thought to himself This is mine, and then found that people
simply believe him, suggest that it was the real founder of civil society (Rousseau On the Origin PG). Rousseau goes on to say: "From how many crimes, wars and murders,
from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch..." (PG). There is the idea that from
human nature, which is essentially negative, there erupts conflict. The fact that people decide to claim land, to own things and to live in such a manner that appears to
be rational, really goes against human nature. For example, communism is its antithesis as people are treated equally. That of course is a paradigm that never really existed, but one
which ideally is entrenched in the idea of the creation of a perfect society. Rousseau goes on talking about society where people are property owners and says that there
is a significant probability that things have already come to a pitch, and that they could no longer continue as they were; because the idea of property really depends upon
many prior ideas, something that could only be acquired successively, it could not have been formed all at once in the human mind (PG). Clearly, this observation negates Rousseaus initial
suggestion that one man decided he owned property and everyone believed him. At the same time, one can also say that while it is true that the situation is really
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