Throughout The Social Contract, Rousseau argues that individuals’ opportunities and natural rights …show more content…
Much of what Rousseau writes concerning the natural rights of man directly opposes the current states under absolutist control. Rousseau does not draw his idea of natural rights from political, religious, or historical sources, but rather bases them on nature and emphasizes the ideals of the “noble savage” and philosophically hopes to find a primitive paradise (Lecture 8/25). Rousseau states in the beginning of his social contract stating that, “…no man has any natural authority over