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Corrupted Man Rousseau

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Throughout this essay there is a constant question of what in this world corrupted man. How did he become the way he is? So physically surrounded by the hands of nature, yet so far away from it spiritually. Man is shown as weak, to distant from nature to become his full potential. Man is above all the top predator on this earth, but if he was closer to being wild, would he be even more dangerous. Advances in technology are what lead to man’s rise above all the other creatures on this earth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has a section in his essay where he makes an address to his “citizens” of a society in which he has completely imagined up. This society in a way is a complete mixture of Democratic and Socialistic views. The people elect their government
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