Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a French philosopher and a composer in 18th century. In this summer, I will read one of his works called "Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inquality Among Men." His political idea influenced the French Revolution.
Human beings was once in the state of nature in which there is no inequality because those who were in the state of nature had almost no relationship with each other. Moreover, Rousseau sffirmed those people were born pure. Thus, they knew neither vice or virtue. Anyway, he proclaims that there are two types of inequality. One is natural or physical inequality since it is established by nature and consists in the difference of age, health, bodily strength, and qualities of mind or soul. Another is called moral or political inequality His theory starts from this point of view.
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