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Jean Jacques Rousseau was a great philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Aristotle, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and John Stuart Mill. Their collected thoughts has had strong influence on building the foundation of the United States and its endeavor of open society.

In 1756, A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe; And, the State of War was published. Rousseau opened with a proclamation of peace in the book: “What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?” The reasons that he claimed this were twofold. First, He was absolutely honest to the world peace as the truth of nature. Second, he was different from the other people and the difference was the value of diversity and peace that he desired his reader to judge.

Rousseau’s work has produced great influence on modern philosophy and logic. His view became widely recognised as the foremost philosophical voice and his influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences.

This book is one of the most important ones about philosophy, war and peace, and politics by Rousseau, one of the greatest thinkers of modern philosophy on the planet.