Who has given the statement “Man is born free but he is always in chain?”

(A) Locke
(B) Rousseau
(C) Bentham
(D) Robert Mill

Correct Answer : Rousseau
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Explanation : Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His most important work is The Social Contract, which outlines the basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism, Published in 1762. it became one of the most influential works of political philosophy in the Western tradition. It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work. the article Economie Politique (Discourse on Political Economy), featured in Diderot’s Encyclopedia. The treatise begins with the dramatic opening lines. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”
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