The relationship between inequality and the lack of freedom in society according to Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Freedom Inequality Society Social Contract

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April 23, 2021

Jean-Jacques Rousseau seeks to present a political plan for a society based on which individuals can achieve permanent and eternal freedom. Accordingly, it raises its social contract. He seeks to find the root of the lack of freedom in society and intends to identify and critique the roots of this issue, present his social contract plan, and sustain and consolidate. He points to inequality in this direction. According to Rousseau, mankind was naturally free and lived freely until civil society was created on the basis of the formation of private property. He believes that the formation of private property is the starting point for the establishment of inequality and the expansion of power-domination relations in society, and this is where a man gets out of the natural state and loses his freedom. Rousseau sees the condition for the realization of freedom in society as the negation of inequality and proposes his social contract with an emphasis on the denial of various forms of domination and the denial of alienation. Confronted the inequality that exists in the nature of civil society.