So here I am, all alone on this earth, with no brother, neighbour, or friend, and no company but my own. The most sociable and loving of human beings… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "So here I am, all alone on this earth, with no brother, neighbour, or friend, and no company but my own. The most sociable and loving of human beings has by common consent been banished by the rest of society. In the refinement of their hatred they have continued to seek the cruellest forms of torture for my sensitive soul, and they have brutally severed all the ties which bound me to them. I would have loved my fellow men in spite of themselves. Only by ceasing to be men have they succeeded in losing my affection for them. So now they are strangers, persons unknown who mean nothing to me since that is what they wanted. But what about me, cut off from them and from everything else, what am I? This is what remains for me to find out now.
About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Mais le corps politique ou le souverain ne tirant son être que de la sainteté du contrat ne peut jamais s'obliger, même envers autrui, à rien qui déroge à cet acte primitif, comme d'aliéner quelque portion de lui-même ou de se soumettre à un autre souverain. Violer l'acte par lequel il existe serait s'anéantir, et ce qui n'est rien ne produit rien.
Bize deniyor ki doğa alışkanlıktan başka bir şey değildir. Bu ne anlama geliyor? Yalnızca zorla edinilen ve doğayı hiçbir zaman ortadan kaldırmayan alışkanlıklar yok mudur? Örneğin, dikine büyümesi engellenen bitkilerin alışkanlığı böyle değil midir? Özgür bırakılan bitki, kendisine zorla benimsetilen eğilimi korur; ama özsu yine de ilk yönünü değiştirmemiştir ve bitki büyümeye devam ederse, uzaması yeniden dikine olur. İnsanların eğilimleri de böyledir. İnsan aynı durumda kaldıkça, alışkanlıktan ileri gelen ve bizim için en az doğal olan eğilimleri koruyabilir; ama durum değişir değişmez alışkanlık durur ve doğal olan geri gelir. Eğitim kuşkusuz yalnızca bir alışkanlıktır.
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