Jean Jacques Rousseau (Innate Goodness)

Jean Jacques Rousseau is considered to be the first man who created the notion of a civil society. His concept of social contract (known as existed unstated reciprocal obligations between the people and the government) upsets the existing common conventions of traditional society. However, what he failed to scrutinize is that the state is partially dependent on culture and tradition. Thus it is said that it would take long period of time to change the fundamental beliefs elements of culture. Generations will have to pass, simply because culture is a stable part of society  it is basically resistant to change. However, the principal conclusion about this principle is Rousseaus criterion is himself.

Humans are naturally confronted with difficulties and thus individuals are naturally inclined to adaptation. This repeated importance of beings would naturally result to certain relationships between things (family, community and other). Here, the relationship between things must have at length produced in natural independence, which would lead them to the precautions most necessary. This was, according to him, a kind of reflection that could explain the progress of events and discoveries from the view of their usual order. Thus he said in one of his writings.

I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand. I soon contracted that passion for Italian music with which it inspires all those who are capable of feeling its excellence. In listening to barcaroles, I found I had not yet known what singing was... (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754).

He also taught that by experience individuals are the sole motive of human interest and actions. He reiterated in his writings that to distinguish the few cases in which natural interest might convince him to get assistance from his fellow and also conflict of interest arises to suspect them. In this manner, men acquired some logical ideas of mutual understandings of advances of independence among children that could lead them to become stronger individuals. He noticed that in able to succeed, one must abide faithfully to with the reach of anyone of them. There is no doubt that he pursued this idea without regret - he compare this with a deer that was taken and having seized his prey, by doing this he caused companions to miss the deer. The first advances enabled men to search for freedom with greater rapidity. In proportion to this, they grew industrious and enlightened.

The simplicity and privacy of individuals life brought him in a new condition, the rareness of his wants and the employs to satisfy them. Rousseau holds the idea of uncorrupted morals and influenced society as a center for its transformation. Men according to him would not been unhappy at the loss of them although his possession did not make them happy. He considered the society as a natural in the sense of innate goodness, being consequence on mans instinctive unwillingness to observe suffering.  Thus his Humanistic Approach states that.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said This is mine, and found people nave enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows Beware of listening to this impostor you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754).

The endeavored to trace the origin and progress of his theory such as inequality, institution and abuse of political societies are capable of being reduced from nature on man being the light of reason and sacred dogmas which give right to the divine sanction of sovereign authority. Thus, it follows that as there is hardly any type of inequality and no freedom at all in the state of nature, there will be any strength and growth to the development of facilities and the advancement of ever individual. Moral inequality being authorized by positive right alone is not proportionate to physical inequality. On the other hand, children should obtain freedom and independence for them to grow morally and physically fit in their society.

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