In This Essay I Will Argue That People Can Be Forced To

In this essay I will argue that people can be forced to be free when they follow their appetites and aversions. I will be contrasting Rousseau’s idea of freedom with Locke’s idea of freedom. Along with how I disagree with Rousseau’s vision of freedom. In the reading the Social Contract Rousseau states that â€Å"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. He who believes himself the master of others does not escape being more of a slave than they† (Rousseau 427). What Rousseau is saying here is that there is this idea of man being free and being free is looked at as being a slave and or slavery. Slavery then is defined as an individual giving up their natural rights and being made to do something. This in a sense is a monarchy. Rousseau†¦show more content†¦To alienate is to give or to sell. A man who makes himself; he sells himself, at least for his subsistence† (Rousseau 429). This is saying that any man who ends up becoming a slave is because of their willingness and or them giving themselves to slavery. Rousseau then discusses how man giving themselves to slavery is illegitimate and that no man can just sell himself and or give himself to slavery that and when doing so when renouncing your liberty you are denouncing you your dignity as a man. Rousseau thinks that this argument for slavery is void and an illegitimate base for a monarchal government. This is then where the idea for social contracts gets introduced and established into the picture. It was introduced because of the idea of the majority rules when it comes to government and you can’t harm and or kill another individual because they don’t follow and or agree with the consensus of the majority. This is then where you see Rousseau wanting to form a government in which there is no slavery and where individuals are giving up their natural rights and putting it all into the community itself. 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