Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

            Several philosophers ruled their understanding about a certain thing that can be seen in the surroundings. But one of them focused in politics which he made numerous philosophies and beliefs and one if it is the necessity of freedom. For a brief opening definition, the necessity of freedom, from the phrase itself means that freedom is a principle which it is required and indispensable to all people or a virtue that everyone must contain.

            Known for his notable role in the age of enlightenment during the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Francophone Geneva philosopher, was born on June.28, 1712 by his mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau and his father Isaac Rousseau but he encountered abandonment and he was much too young to know everything in sight. However, Rousseau was raised by his aunt and uncle which he was greatly expose to music and he also started to write works about political economy, He joined essay contests as he wrote “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences” that gave him popularity, and was followed by “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men” when he returned to Geneva and another “The Social Contract”, his most noted works that led him to prison but lately freed up and travelled to Morriers, Switzerland. Until, he published his last work entitled “Considerations on the Government of Poland” because he died on July 2, 1778 due to hemorrhage.

            Rousseau, in terms of politics, made several philosophies which they are focused to one same goal and one of it was the connection of human in its own nature to gain the necessity of freedom. According to him, it is a figure of philosophy that stated as the way of freedom more than any problem of political philosophy that aims to explain how man is blessed with total freedom of his own. It is separated into two ideas mainly, the man is physically free because he is not forced of what he will say or being dominated by another person, while the other one, man is psychologically and spiritually open because he is not locked to the basic needs of modern society and he actually concluded that man is responsible for all kinds of social difficulties.

He also believed that government must give all of the citizens the freedom because it is the most important factor for people to survive. As I’ve said in the previous part, one of his work, particularly, The Social Contract stated that man must have functional state to gain a well-organized society. As part of it, he also said that people can never be free if they continue to suffer from property and laws. He also considered the existence of certain values of government to lend the members of the society an accurate level of freedom to enjoy living.

First of all, his philosophical thinking is very similar and a bit different on my perspective but first for my sensible evaluation on his thoughts,  Rousseau wanted to rule his entire philosophy in politics to give clarity on the French and all people to have the state of freedom they need which they must have individual rights, freedom to speak, and pursuit of happiness as he linked the state of being free in political economy to explain that the freedom we want and strongly must have will be based on the government leading the nation.

            Also, he exclaimed that people are responsible for anything they must have done. I also learned that government has the power to conquer the whole society with their own hands.

            In addition, I’ve read a quote of him and it is Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains which it is an applied saying in his political works that means humans are meant to be completely free whatever their status but they are assigned to lock on society for responsibilities.

Overall, the kind of government that people encounter will be their basis of freedom and independence and if people reach the freedom they must grab, it will lead to a progressive and proper society. Still, this kind of philosophy is still appropriate for us perhaps it is a part of modern philosophy because people, from time to time, or in different generation must have the right to decide what they are and what will they want to be.

Rousseau exclaimed that we are still locked if property and laws continues so I suggest that he should oppose that matter because freedom is not all about the things we are free to do because there are some improper doings that may harm one another. So, laws must continue to implement just for the sake of every people as I strongly believe that everything has limitations.