Throughout this essay, I will discuss the main ideas of Schmitt and Rousseau to conclude which writer presents a better representation of modern Western civilization. I will provide a detailed analysis of each text to arrive at this conclusion while discussing the positives and negatives of each writer. After a more in-depth analysis of each text, we will come to a detailed conclusion on which writer represents and contributes the most to modern Western civilization and why. Rousseau begins his work with the famous phrase “man is/was born free, and nevertheless wherever he is in chains". Although you are free at birth, with each new experience that man goes through, he becomes of increasingly “chained” in society Many things can chain a man, such as government, nature, wealth, class and status Rousseau insists that modern states prevent the physical freedom that becomes. ours at the moment of birth, and also do nothing to protect our civil liberty Rousseau then discusses legitimate political authority, which, in short, is the idea that it is not justifiable that a. only person...