Rosseauagues how it was civilization that corrupted man and made them deviant. It couldhave been concluded that back when natural men existed, things would have beendifferent. Natural men had hardly any sin in them, how men would act more onmorals.
He states how men have achieved to be unhappy with all this corruption.Rosseau still believe men are still naturally good but questions what made manso evil. He blames society and self interest for the corruption of men. Forinstance, “Let human society be as highly admired as one wants; it isnonetheless true that it necessarily brings men to hate each other inproportion to the conflict of their interest, to render each other apparentservices and in fact do every imaginable harm to one another” (Rosseau 2002,p.193). Rosseau expresses how self interests and the influence of society leadsto corrupt human beings. Individuals benefit from the disasters and harsh luckof others.
As civilization started to develop, so much envy among each other comeinto sight, and men wishing others dead had created other men’s wealth. Natural men back then didn’t havemuch competition that would conflict between one another and disparity startedto show as others had more since some were more education and wiser than others.”When, on the one hand, one considers the vast labors of men, so manysciences fathomed, so many arts invented, and so many forces employed …. one cannotfail to be struck by the astounding disproportion prevailing between thesethings, and to deplore man’s blindness, which to feed his foolish pride andindefinable vain admiration for himself, makes him run avidly after all themiseries of which he is susceptible, and which beneficent nature had taken careto keep from him” (Rosseau 2002, p. 193). He states that because of all this new buildingand technology and capacity some men had, corruption emerged. Returning to a state of “nature” asper Rousseau, is quite impossible because he says men need to governed as forwho they are now.
Passions and the develop of society have destroyed nature, orthe roots of natural men.
