What does Rousseau mean by the words, “Men are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains”?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s statement, “Men are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains,” summarizes the fundamental contradiction of his political philosophy and is the opening sentence of his work, The Social Contract (1762). Here, Rousseau emphasizes humanity’s tragic dilemma between natural freedom and social slavery. According to Rousseau, in the
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