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Jeremy Gelbart Les Miserables Jean Jacques Rousseau, a 18th century philosopher, contended that man is essentially good, a "noble savage" when in the "state of nature", which is the state of all the other animals, and the condition man was in before the creation of civilization and society, and that good people are made miserable and corrupted by their experiences in society. He viewed society as artificial and corrupt and that the advancing of society results in the ongoing unhappiness of man. Rosseau believed that "man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains". Additionally, Rousseau argued that the advancement in science had not been beneficial to mankind, but rather he proposed that the progress of knowledge had made governments more powerful and crushed individual freedom. Rousseau was one of the first writers to attack the institution of private property, and therefore is considered a forebear of modern socialism and...

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