Rousseau National or Civil Liberty
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People in a state of nature enjoy national liberty, and when they bind themselves together into a political body, they enjoy civil liberty. What are the differences? Define each kind of liberty as carefully as you can, and take a stand on whether you feel civil liberty or natural liberty is superior. How is the conflict between the two forms of liberty felt today?
Rousseau's ideas about the diversity between natural liberty and civil liberty were sometimes similar but quite different. He wrote that through natural liberty we could gain civil liberty. What is lost in a natural society or living by Rousseau's social contract is what we gain in a civil society from our civil liberty. Our citizens would also be in control of our possessions. Natural liberty is being forced to be free; and civil liberty is the concern for freedom and private property guided by the the protection of a stable government.
In a society governed by natural liberty, we have the right to everything we desire regardless of morals or principles...