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In Rousseau’s novel, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, he discusses the life of the savage man in the first part and then in the second part he talks about how the civil man came to be. “I conceive of two kinds of inequality in the human species: one wh ....

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.... Being discussed in this essay will be the advantages and disadvantages of living as a civil man as opposed to savage man. I hope to show that one is more suitable than the other is due to the fact that there is now more knowledge than before and without it savage man would not survive. To begin with, Rousseau claimed that the entire population of savage man was happy and satisfied just by hunting everyday because that is what he loved. The author states, “…when I consider him, in a word, as he must have left the hands of nature, I see an animal less strong than some, less agile than others, but all in all, the most advantageously organized ....