Social Contract

Name: Social Contract
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ISBN: 9780879754440

ISBN-10: 0879754443

ISBN-13: 9780879754440

Edition: Unabridged

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole

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With the publication of The Social Contract in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but corrupted by the conflicting interests within society. Here self-interest degenerated into a state of war from which humanity could only be extricated by the imposition of a contract. As a party to the compact, each individual would find his true interest served within the political expression of the community of man, or the "general will."

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List price: $12.99
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 3/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 137
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.23" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.352



Foreword






Subject of the First Book



The First Societies



The Right of the Strongest



Slavery



That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention



The Social Contract



The Sovereign



The Civil State



Real Property






That Sovereignty Is Inalienable



That Sovereignty Is Indivisible



Whether the General Will Is Fallible



The Limits of the Sovereign Power



The Right of Life and Death



Law



The Legislator



The People



The People (cont.)



The People (cont.)



The Various Systems of Legislation



The Division of the Laws






Government in General



The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government



The Division of Governments



Democracy



Aristocracy



Monarchy



Mixed Governments



That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries



The Marks of a Good Government



The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate



The Death of the Body Politic



How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself



How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (cont.)



How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (cont.)



Deputies or Representatives



That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract



The Institution of Government



How to Check the Usurpations of Government






That the General Will Is Destructible



Voting



Elections



The Roman Comitia



The Tribunate



The Dictatorship



The Censorship



Civil Religion



Conclusion