¿De dónde procede la debilidad del hombre? De la desigualdad entre su fuerza y sus deseos. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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¿De dónde procede la debilidad del hombre? De la desigualdad entre su fuerza y sus deseos.

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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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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva Jean Jacques Rousseau J. J. Rousseau Rousseau J.J. Rousseau JJ Rousseau

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The origin of our passions, the root and spring of all the rest, the only one which is born with man, which never leaves him as long as he lives, is self-love; this passion is primitive, instinctive, it precedes all the rest, which are in a sense only modifications of it. In this sense, if you like, they are all natural. But most of these modifications are the result of external influences, without which they would never occur, and such modifications, far from being advantageous to us, are harmful. They change the original purpose and work against its end; then it is that man finds himself outside nature and at strife with himself.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

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Her şeyin güçlük, görev ve zorunluluk olduğu toplum yaşamına hiçbir zaman elverişli olmadığım ve boyun eğmez huyum dolayısıyla insanlarla yaşamak isteyenlerin kabul etmek zorunda kaldıkları yükümlülüklere katlanamadığımdır. Özgür davrandıkça, iyi bir insanım ve yalnızca iyilik ederim; ama gerek zorunluğun gerek insanların boyunduruğunu duar duymaz huylanır, başkaldırırım; o zaman hiç bir işe yaramam. İsteğimce davranamazsam, ne olursa olsun gitmem; ama, zarif bir adam olduğum için o isteğimi de yerine getirmem. İnsan için özgürlüğün, istediğini yapmaktan çok istemediğini yapmamak olduğuna her zaman inanmışımdır.

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