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The Social Contract

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The Social Contract

The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. In The Social Contract (1762) Rousseau argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people. When people aren't abiding the general will and they are "forced to be free," this wasn't advocating totalitarianism. The general will is laws that are accepted as just and those who don't follow the general will are breaking the law. Rousseau is advocating to force people to follow the law because it is in everyone's best interest to do so.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 16, 2017
ISBN13 9781974605590
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 124
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 7 mm   ·   176 g
Language English  

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