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A baroque music concert, "Consolations des misères of Mavie / Le Devin du village", the writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, takes place in the auditorium on Friday Ceutí as regards the recent international conference organized by the University of Murcia to mark the tercentenary of the birth of this author.
The thought of Rousseau, who lived in the eighteenth century, revolutionized the world of social and political ideas of their time and were later sources democracies.
It also earned him persecution by the absolutist powers then.
On the other hand, moved to the field of education, have earned the prestigious educator consideration as they remember his maxims as "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" or "The man is good by nature" , hence the idea of ​​universal education possible.
Substantiated also those ideas in achieving equality in the then "new society" in which he lived, said: "The souls are no longer visible, nor friendship possible or lasting confidence, because no one dares to seem what it is. "
Regarding the origin of this inequality, said it was due to the establishment of law and property rights, which he says occurs in men the desire of possession.
"This is, indeed, the cause of all these differences: the wild lives for himself; social man, always outside himself, can not live more than the opinion of others," said the philosopher.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Ceutí
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