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The Social Contract and Discourses Book

'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.Read More

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  • 0460016601
  • 9780460016605
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. Cole
  • 1 March 1978
  • Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 330
  • 2nd Revised edition
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