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Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau was one of the many great minds in the eighteenth and nineteenth century who made many contributions to society. Rousseau had numerous ideas and thoughts on society and how people evolved to become who they were. Rousseau’s thoughts on how people evolved and his contradicting ways of life, is what was intriguing to me and lead me to researching his life. Rousseau believed, in contrast to Hobbes, that all people were good by nature. However, he felt that society or the industrialized world made people bad. One of Rousseau’s most famous quotes was that, “ Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” I agree totally with this thought of Rousseau. I believe that human beings are born free and pure and it is actually society that makes them evil or corrupt. If you look at a newborn child all they want is to be loved and cared for. They don’t know right from wrong, good from bad. It is life that teaches them these lessons. Rousseau believed that if you take two newborn children and raise one in the city and raise one in the unindustrialized world, that the one in the city will be evil and the one in the unindustrialized world would be good. I agree somewhat with Rousseau’s theor