Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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| Original Title: | Du contrat social, ou Principes du droit politique |
| ISBN: | 0143037498 (ISBN13: 9780143037491) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.Itemize Containing Books The Social Contract
| Title | : | The Social Contract |
| Author | : | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 168 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2006 by Penguin (first published 1762) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. Classics. History. Cultural. France. Political Science |
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I am a huge fan of Rousseaus Discourse on Inequality, and was hoping to appreciate this book just as much. There is a telling irony in that in the former text, Rousseau sees civilization as incapable of being repaired, and the source of most of the problems of inequality through wealth and politics. Private property is an overall pariah to him, which ought not to exist.As Rousseau got older he seems to have changed his mind a bit, and tempered that anarcho-primitvism. In the Social Contract we'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' Rousseau does give great leaps in logic sometimes, but his ideals are solid and have refaced human society since the French Revolution. A must read for its historical importance and ideas on personal freedom versus societal duties.
It is always an evil, opines Rousseau near the end of this treatise, to unite several towns in one nation, and you think hang on that's all nations, isn't it? Except, perhaps aha! for the Swiss republics like Rousseau's own native Geneva, where state and city were coterminous and political theories could be tested and discarded like strains of bacteria in a petri-dish. It must have been a blow when the Genevans turned against him and burnt his books en masse.And they were not his last
Du Contrat Social = Principes du droit Politique = The Social Contract = Principles of Political Rights, Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 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
Great Philosophies Philosophy implies thinking; and thus, indicates a certain type of thought. That is exactly what this book has accomplished combined three books that summarized a brief view of numerous philosophers ways of perceiving the world. Aside from all that, Social Contract theory was the heart and soul of this phenomenal manuscript. Should it be followed, its practices would eliminate quite a few of the useless egoism and its selfish consequential behaviors. If youd like a moment of
The Social Contract, along with Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, is one of the classics of political and social thought. I'm glad I have finally read it. Rousseau sets out to answer the question of whether there can be a legitimate government, and what conditions a legitimate government must meet. At the beginning of Book I, he writes:"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 laws as
"The average man of each new generation has said to himself more clearly and consciously than his predecessor: 'My neighbor is not my enemy, but my friend, and I am his, if we would but mutually recognize the fact. We help each other to a better, fuller, happier living; and this service might be greatly increased if we would cease to restrict, hamper, and oppress each other. Why can we not agree to let each live his own life, neither of us transgressing the limit that separates our
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