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Rousseau's Inequality

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His main beliefs on society, inequality, and war are not closely related to those of other philosophers. Rousseau believes that society brings benefits such as mutual protection, but that it also corrupts us. This makes society a benefit, but in the end our downfall as well. He believes that when we account for society we bring in the inequality. Some people are very luxurious with many things and much private property while others lack in these aspects of life. Due to the lack of these items people become driven with anger because they feel cheated. This ties in war, meaning that now war originates from the idea of private property. Rousseau believes that language, reasoning, culture, and morality also all come from society and he focuses
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