"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." What French philosopher believed Man was best in his primitive state?

The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau led to the French Revolution and the secularization of France, which had long intertwined Church and State. His thoughts invoked an education based on developing moral character, and he believed that the primitive state of Man was mankind at its prime without moral corruption.

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