In Rousseau’s On the Social Contract, has a plethora of information concerning how citizens must give up their individual liberties in order to engage in a successful social contract and achieve true freedom. It is interesting that Rousseau claims that liberties must be given up in order to achieve freedom, but argues that slaves are inherently not free because they do not have these liberties to give up to begin with. “Aristotle… had also said that men are by no means equal by nature, but that some are born for slavery and others for domination” (Rousseau 158). According to Rousseau, when forced or willingly placed into slavery a person’s will is given up. Due to this fact, slave can not participate in the general will, which is a large part
