Author: Ethan Putterman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521765382 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 201
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Examines Rousseau's contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates.
Author: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773514157 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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A translation of Joseph De Maistre's critique of Rousseau providing a historical forum for understanding the intellectual qualities of the counter-revolution from 1792 to 1797. Obviously, De Maistre's arguments were not successful, but they are valuable in terms of exploring Rousseau's ideologies, in particular his belief in the natural goodness of man and popular sovereignty. Although the two men are usually seen as polar opposites, De Maistre's critique reveals ambiguities that make him seem surprisingly more similar than he would have admitted. Lebrun (history, U. of Manitoba) provides a qualitative introduction. Canadian card order number C95-900-929-9. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: David Lay Williams Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521197554 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.
Author: Charles Edward Merriam Publisher: ISBN: 9781356392377 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 660
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The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights, is a 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. Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781512149913 Category : Languages : en Pages : 182
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The Social Contract & Discourses By Jean Jacques Rousseau Edited By Ernest Rhys Philosophy and Theology Rousseau's Social Contract Translated With Introduction BY G. D. H. Cole Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique; 1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a 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; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. The stated aim of The Social Contract is to determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority, since people's interactions he saw at his time seemed to put them in a state far worse than the good one they were at the state of nature, even though living in isolation. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same amount of rights and impose the same duties on all. Rousseau argues that it is illogical for a man to surrender his freedom for slavery; thus, the participants must have a right to choose the laws under which they live. Although the contract imposes new laws, including those safeguarding and regulating property, a person can exit it at any time (except in a time of need, for this is desertion), and is again as free as when he was born. Rousseau posits that the political aspects of a society should be divided into two parts. First, there must be a sovereign consisting of the whole population, women included, that represents the general will and is the legislative power within the state. The second division is that of the government, being distinct from the sovereign. This division is necessary because the sovereign cannot deal with particular matters like applications of the law. Doing so would undermine its generality, and therefore damage its legitimacy. Thus, government must remain a separate institution from the sovereign body. When the government exceeds the boundaries set in place by the people, it is the mission of the people to abolish such government, and begin anew.
Author: Charles Edward Merriam Publisher: Sagwan Press ISBN: 9781298874498 Category : Languages : en Pages : 250
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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publisher: ISBN: 9781935238409 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 131
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Long hailed as one of the most original, controversial, and influential works of modern political theory, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right (1762) sets out to address an apparently insoluble difficulty: how can we organize a political community so as to guarantee its members the complete physical and emotional freedom given to them by nature, while at the same time ensuring peaceful order and cooperation within the state. How can we "find a form of association which defends and protects with full communal force the person and the possessions of each member and in which each person, by uniting with all, nevertheless obeys only himself and remains as freeas before."Rousseau's solution to this problem offers a vision of a republican constitution in which the citizens are free because, as rational beings, they choose to live in a state where they all have an equal share in the sovereign power and are all equally subject to the laws established by the general will of all. No matter what the form of government, in order to be legitimate, it must be subject to the sovereignty of the people.On the Social Contract is justly famous as a collectivist response to the more individualistic liberalism of Hobbes and Locke. For Rousseau true freedom in the modern state can only be realized if the citizens, as rational individuals, subordinate their selfish personal desires to the laws enacted by the general will of all--citizens, he states in one of his best known and most paradoxical sayings "must be forced to be free." Only then can they realize their full potential as free moral beings.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781342209023 Category : Languages : en Pages : 268
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Author: Ethan Putterman
Author: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre
Author: David Lay Williams
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Charles Edward Merriam
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Charles Edward Merriam
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau