All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains
My favourite quote by Rousseau is the title of this post "men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains.
When I was a young boy of 16 I interpreted this with predetermined judgments, namely freedom is good and chains are bad. As a result my feeling was that I should try to break these "chains" and rediscover the freedom I was born with.
In this quo…
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