"Every city, therefore, exists by nature, if such also are the first communities. For the city is …show more content…
However, there is an interesting trade off that once receives leaving state of nature and voluntarily entering into a social contract. Although, he seems to admit that there are advantages to living in the community as seen in the following quote? "the gains equally great ones in return. His faculties are exercised and developed, his ideas are broadened, his feelings are ennobled, his entire soul" (Rousseau p.167). This is made possible in his mind by the fact that the social contract is (or is supposed to be) made between individuals of equal freedoms and therefore equal restrictions of freedoms. "For first of all, since each person gives himself whole and entire, the condition is equal for everyone; and since the condition is equal for everyone, no one has an interest in making it burdensome for the others" (Rousseau p.164). Rousseau feels that if everyone enters the social contract and gives him/herself fully to the whole then even though everyone as given up some (natural) freedoms to gain protection in addition to other significant gains as seen in the