Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a theory of human nature that differed from all others. The way we started, grew as a society, and live now, are totally different than what we have already learned this semester. He thought of what is called a Social Contract Theory. This theory will be discussed in this paper, especially in the aspects of personal freedom, the role of the intellect, human social and/or spiritual relations, and the nature of the self. How much personal freedom does a person have? Well, Rousseau would say that humans do have personal freedom, but that freedom is hard to keep. He would say that, “Humans are born free, and everywhere they are in chains.”(notes 11/4/99) To some, this would be hard to grasp at first. To put it simply, we, as humans, are not living the ways that we are supposed to. Somewhere along the line we got off on a tangent with our developm....

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