The Social Contract Or Principles Of Political Right - Couverture rigide

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1161477209 ISBN 13 : 9781161477207

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Social Contract Or Principles Of Political Right is a political philosophy book written by Jean Jacques Rousseau. The book explores the concept of the social contract, which is the agreement among individuals to form a society and surrender some of their individual rights to a government in exchange for protection and security. Rousseau argues that the social contract is the foundation of a just and stable society, and that the government's authority is derived from the people it governs. He also discusses the idea of popular sovereignty, which holds that the people have the ultimate power in a society, and that government officials are accountable to the people. The book is divided into four parts, each of which explores different aspects of the social contract and political philosophy. The Social Contract Or Principles Of Political Right is considered one of the most influential works of political philosophy in Western thought, and has had a significant impact on the development of modern democratic theory.THE first and most important deduction from the principles we have so far laid down is that the general will alone can direct the State according to the object for which it was instituted, i.e., the common good: for if the clashing of particular interests made the establishment of societies necessary, the agreement of these very interests made it possible.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"His most famous and influential work." --The Reader's Encyclopedia

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 free as 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 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1161477209
• ISBN 13: 9781161477207
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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