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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
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Social Contract
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You may not know much if anything about Jean Jacques Rousseau but you will probably heard the well-known quote man is born free and everywhere he is in Chains in his early work also argued that mankind was happiest and at its best in a state of nature that is before the creation of society and Civilization he saw Society as artificial and corrupt and that good people were corrupted by it the social contract is perhaps the most enduring and well known of his books covering pretty well every aspect of man in society however in this book is attitude to the condition of man in a state of nature changes in such conditions man is brutish and competitive by nature and there is no law or morality. Therefore because it is easier to Survive by joining forces with others people form societies to better fight anything that might endanger their situation rousseau's political philosophy and had a profound influence on later thinkers even though or perhaps especially because it is open to many interpretations but political philosophy is not everybody's cup of tea in his own time also was a bestseller.
Which of the following statements is true of Rousseau's beliefs in The Social Contract?
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