Rousseau and the "Government of Poland"

Throughout Poland during the late eighteenth century, many disputes over land and politics were occurring. During the years of 1771 until 1792, Poland had been partitioned three times. By 1792, Poland didn't even exist due to a poor army and no governmental structure. Finally, Poland was split up between Russia, Poland, and Austria. Rousseau sees the Poles at this time as rather selfish people. Rousseau has many thoughts on how Poland could be saved and all Poles to …showed first 75 words of 892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 892 total…way. Most of the world now respects others and a majority of the population is now represented in politics. One might believe that even though we are long past Rousseau's time, we still believe in fairness and equality of others. There are times when we may be selfish and can't see past the fact that we may be impacting others by our selfish acts, we have truly come a long way since eighteenth century Europe.