The Social Contract
Does the order of the community you belong to suppress your freedom, or guarantee it?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. When I met that powerful opening line, I felt as if struck on the head with a hammer. Rousseau poses the fundamental question of why we belong to that community called the state and follow its rules. Rather than submitting to an oppressive system, he argued for the greatness of the "contract" that individuals freely enter into for the sake of true freedom. After reading this book, which digs into the origins of the social rules and authority we take for granted, the very structure of the world beneath your feet will look entirely different.
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"인간은 자유롭게 태어났지만, 어디서나 쇠사슬에 묶여 있다."
🌱Apply It Today
Pick one rule in your organization and think critically: is it for the good of everyone, or for the benefit of a few?
