Imagine yourself living in world with no social expectations, no competitions and no submission to the social hierarchy. Imagine yourself being free, peaceful, strong and powerful. Jean-Jacques Rousseau calls this state the natural state of man, the state that everyone should aspire to live in and that brings power to an individual. By exploring the natural state of man we are able to see how Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a new understanding of the individual.
According to Rousseau man should want to live in the natural state. Nithin Coca is a journalist who writes from Colombia University discusses Rousseau’s ideas about the Natural State by saying, “Man in his natural state had more equality and freedom from …show more content…
23). Man in his natural state does not care of what lies ahead of him. He has inner peace when he is not aware of his future. He is at peace because make no comparisons to others of how much more beautiful or intelligent he may be. The man at natural state will be at peace by just attempting to do whatever he does to satisfy himself. The “Discourse of Inequality” is book written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In this book Rousseau writes about the inequality of natural state he says “Man is weak when he is dependent, and is his own master before he comes to be strong” (Rousseau, 33). Rousseau explains that when man lives in a civilized society there is always someone smarter, stronger and more attractive than he is. However man is in his natural state, he becomes his own mentor and teaches himself that what doesn’t kill him makes him …show more content…
He states that the government should be transparent and how he is going to make it happen. This is an excellent source for transparency because these words are from the President himself and is found on the official White House website. It is a good amount of information on transparency and openness in the government and is written in a clear succinct manner. I recommend this to anyone looking for information on government transparency.
Roberts, Alasdair. "Govt Transparency A Necessity Not A Luxury” Scoop. Scoop, 16
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“Govt Transparency A Necessity Not a Luxury” is about Professor Roberts speech on how transparency is needed in a government. He also mentions the negative outcomes due to a lack of transparency. This is a good source to look for negative results because of the government’s non-existent transparency. It has a lot of strongly opinionated statements and paraphrasing so readers can get to the main point faster although some of the paraphrasing may seem redundant. I recommend this to high school students and beyond due to complex references and vocabulary.
Rousseau, Jean J. Contents for Rousseau 's Emile. 1762. Web. 19 Nov.