The Harmful Effects of Inequality According to Locke and Rousseau
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6
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This 6 page report discusses the differing opinions of the 18th century French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose writings inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and those of John Locke, considered to have been one of Great Britain’s greatest thinkers.
Locke believed that because a person is naturally free only when ruled by the law of nature, the individual is ostensibly free from any superior power on earth and from the will of all other men, thus negating the idea of human equality or inequality. Rousseau, on the other hand, was certain that some inequalities are inescapable because they are natural, but there are also unnatural inequalities, such as great disparities in wealth, that should disappear. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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