Así en este mundo la felicidad humana no es otra cosa que un estado negativo que ha de medirse por la menor cantidad de males que se padece. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Así en este mundo la felicidad humana no es otra cosa que un estado negativo que ha de medirse por la menor cantidad de males que se padece.
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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Citizen of Geneva
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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J. J. Rousseau
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The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.” This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
