'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'. This starts the treatise by one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Who is he?
A
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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B
Rene Descartes
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C
Karl Marx
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D
Friedrich Engels
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Solution
The correct option is A Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher and writer. His Political Philosophy, particularly his formulation of social contract theory strongly influenced the French Revolution and the development of Liberal, Conservative and Socialist theory.
A brilliant, undisciplined and unconventional thinker throughout his colorful life, his views on Philosophy of Education and on religion were equally controversial but nevertheless influential.