{"id":650,"date":"2026-01-07T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualbooks.com.br\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:21:09","slug":"podcast-rousseau-we-are-born-free-but-everywhere-we-go-we-are-chained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualbooks.com.br\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/podcast-rousseau-we-are-born-free-but-everywhere-we-go-we-are-chained\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: ROUSSEAU We are born free, but everywhere we go we are chained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The podcast explores the life and ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an influential 18th-century philosopher. His central thought argued that human beings are born free, but society chains them through the corruption of the arts, sciences and private property. The podcast details his biography, from his birth and troubled childhood to his rise as a renowned and controversial thinker. Rousseau argued that civil society, founded on inequality and the search for recognition, alienates the individual from his original nature. His works such as the \u201cDiscourse on Inequality\u201d, \u201cThe Social Contract\u201d and \u201cEmile\u201d proposed radical views on politics, education and the human condition, profoundly influencing Romanticism and future revolutions, despite his own contradictions and controversial personal life revealed in his \u201cConfessions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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