What is Rousseaus view of humans in civil society as slaves? Does this view, as argumentative and controversial as it might be, provide any...

In
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Rousseau understands most people in
society to be slaves of the few, the few being those who own the bulk of the property. This, he
contends, creates inequality based on arbitrary rankings of people, which Rousseau argues does
not exist in the state of nature. In nature, the only inequality is that of physical
strength.

Once property came into being, the slaves resented the masters.
Therefore, the masters created government in order to foster a sense of social unity, saying
that they would protect the rights and property of the poor in exchange for the power to run
society. However, since the poor, by definition, had very little wealth with which to ensure
they were actually protected, the masters continued to...