... was made cruel, selfish and hedonist by the social structures. He believed that society's attempt to become civilized has actually made them worse in terms of injustice. He further argued that governments have become so strong and powerful that they have crushed individual liberty [Rousseau, 207-238]. He concluded that governments have not only crushed individual liberty but the unequal distribution of wealth among the population has also undermined sincere friendship between the people and the government. To resolve this problem Rousseau suggests through his The Social Contract that society should exist in harmony with everyone and individual freedom should be encouraged. In his masterpiece "The Social Contract" Rousseau proposes solutions of the problems he diagnosed in his "Origins of Civil Society" and "Discourse on Inequality". With the famous phrase "man is born free, but he is everyone in chains," Rousseau states that the modern nations in which royal entities repress the ...

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