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  • Book I, Chapter TwoOf the General Society of Mankind

  • from [OC III, 281]From: Of the Social Contract or Essay about the Form of the Republic (known as the Geneva Manuscript)
  • Edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Book:
    Rousseau: <I>The Social Contract</I> and Other Later Political Writings
    Published online:
    20 December 2018
    Print publication:
    08 November 2018, pp 156-163

  • Summary

    Man’s natural force is so well proportioned to his natural needs and his primitive state that as soon as his state changes and his needs increase ever so slightly [282] he needs his fellows’ assistance, and when eventually his desires embrace the whole of nature, the assistance of the whole of mankind barely suffices to satisfy them. That is how the same causes that make us wicked also make us slaves, and subjugate us by depraving us; the sentiment of our weakness comes less from our nature than from our cupidity: our needs unite us in proportion as our passions divide us, and the more we become our fellows’ enemies, the less can we do without them.

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