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Essay / Summary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's speech on...
Rousseau explains: “The first man who fenced a piece of land and thought of saying: “This is mine”, and found others stupid enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. He thus expresses that the development of civilization was in reality founded on injustice. Thus, most of the problems we still encounter today can be attributed to this fundamental flaw in our system. If we truly want to live in harmony with nature, we must return to what is natural for humanity. We must regress towards the organic state of man. In all honesty, if we were ever to return to a state of nature, I believe we would die. Humans have become so dependent on all artificial development that without it we would not know how to overcome and endure. Civilization has become the natural state of