After reading this book, I'm getting restless. I finally know that Voltaire said Rousseau was the source of anti-humanity. Rousseau was very unpopular in his middle and old age.

Voltaire said Rousseau was anti-human, and Rousseau's On the Causes and Basis of Inequality between People struggled to turn people into beasts.

The first step in discussing inequality in the book is that human beings have a sense of shame, contempt for others, vanity and jealousy; Gradually, the differences between people are getting bigger and bigger, and there are differences in status, personal ability, wealth and power. Some of them gradually try their best to fix their vested interests, which is also the origin of law and society-"laws have been enacted to protect private property and admit inequality, and the act of extorting money from others has become an irrevocable right."

This book is very short, divided into preface, the first part and the next part. In particular, it took a long time to describe the evolutionary process of human beings from individual to group. I wonder whether Rousseau's description of primitive social equality is correct and true; Intuitively, it seems to be similar to what you usually know. Logically speaking, Rousseau did show a closely related logical system.

The book The Causes of Inequality has the feeling of chicken soup for the soul. When I first came into contact with chicken soup for the soul, I was really shocked. This shocking feeling is still reflected in today's book.

For example, "in this century full of university experts, some lame people want to teach others to walk."

It seems that after 400 years, these ideas are still beyond my imagination. It is very likely that after 400 years, I have no sense of existence. The only possibility is that I may be a "passer-by" in history books.

"All kinds of human sufferings stem from their mistakes, not ignorance." This sentence seems familiar, which makes me feel familiar. "All kinds of human sufferings come from thinking too much and doing too little."

I made the right decision to read this book, because the dreams of loners are full of negative energy, resentment and complaints. "Lonely Man" once said that Rousseau was "unbearable for the world" at first, and he was miserable; Later, I decided to ignore other people's opinions and became much more relaxed. Just as Rousseau longs for the barbarism of primitive society, he is also trying to practice this state himself-"The value of a civilized man who lives his own life and is always neurotic is to look at other people's comments, that is, his feelings about his life are based on other people's views."