History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2014 History
Who wrote that 'Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains'?
AMontesquieu
BVoltaire
CDiderot
DRousseau ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Rousseau — Rousseau wrote this, so the answer is Rousseau.
Explanation
★Rousseau wrote this, so the answer is Rousseau.
★The line opens his famous book The Social Contract.
★It means that men are born free but society puts them in chains.
★He sought a form of society that would restore true freedom.
★He gave the idea of the social contract and the General Will.
★His ideas deeply shaped modern thought and the French Revolution.
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