Natural tendency of gov to usurp sovereignty and invalidate social contract gov interests always in conflict with sovs the best means of restraining the executive is holding periodic assemblies. This was a theory of the social contract, a theory of rational individuals creating a rational government, a government not based on class. Thus begins jeanjacques rousseaus influential 1762 work, on the social contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. Analysis of the theory of social contract by jean jacques rousseau jean jacques rousseau was a french philosopher who gave a new interpretation to the theory of social contract in his work the. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. I mean to inquire if, in the civil order, there can be any sure and legitimate rule of administration, men being taken as they are and.
Paragraph numbers apply to this excerpt, not the original source. The social contract, then, may be regarded either as a document of the french revolution, or as one of the greatest books dealing with political philosophy. Thus begins jeanjacques rousseaus influential 1762 work, on the social contract, a milestone of political science, and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. The social contract audiobook by jeanjacques rousseau kobo. The social contract outlines rousseaus views on political justice, explaining how a just and. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. On the social contract audiobook jeanjacques rousseau.
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