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The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right ( French: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique ), is a 1762 French-language book by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The book theorizes about how to establish legitimate authority in a political community, that is ...
The Social Contract, major work of political philosophy by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78). Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract) is thematically continuous with two earlier treatises by Rousseau: Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750; A Discourse on
Social contract - Rousseau, Theory, Agreement: Rousseau, in Discours sur l’origine de l’inegalité (1755; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality), held that in the state of nature humans were solitary but also healthy, happy, good, and free. What Rousseau called “nascent societies” were formed when human began to live together as families and neighbours; that development, however, gave ...
Learn about Rousseau's controversial argument that society is the sovereign and the individual must subordinate their will to the general will. Explore how his ideas have been misinterpreted and misused by different political movements.
Rousseau’s Social Contract Theory. Luke Tucker is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He is mainly interested in political philosophy. The topic of his dissertation is the epistemological roots of conservatism. “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”. [1] Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ...
Full Work Summary. With the famous phrase, "man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains," Rousseau asserts that modern states repress the physical freedom that is our birthright, and do nothing to secure the civil freedom for the sake of which we enter into civil society. Legitimate political authority, he suggests, comes only from a ...
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An overview of social contract theory, the view that moral and political obligations are based on a contract among persons. Learn about the origins, proponents, and critiques of this influential theory, with special attention to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's version.
