[PDF] Of The Social Contract Or Principles Of Political Right Discourse On Political Economy eBook

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 802724319X

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In "Discourse on Inequality" or "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men" Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction (like a work by Thomas Hobbes, unlike those by John Locke), and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. "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 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. Contents: The Social Contract Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Discourse on the Arts and Sciences A Discourse on Political Economy

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1624667872

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This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract together with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one of our leading historians of the Enlightenment.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 802689295X

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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 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.