1. Jean Jacques Rousseaue
This is where he first put into writing the idea that man was better off uncivilized and that civil society had not made life better but corrupted mankind. ... In the Social Contract Rousseau defined civil liberty; by equality, we should understand, not that the degrees of power and riches are to be absolutely identical for everybody; but that power shall never be great enough for violence and that no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. ...
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