It is worth commenting here on a mistake we find in Rousseau's Social Contract . In a hypothetical state of nature, and so in the absence of society.
Every human being has the freedom of autonomy.
But when they enter freely into the social contract, Rousseau say they are still as autonomous as before. No one in a political society is autonomous. Instead, it is both natural and conventional. In other words, human beings cannot achieve a good or civilized life unless they are citizens of a state, but the states that are thus constituted differ conventionally from place to place.