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The Social Contract

The Social Contract

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Cranston, Maurice

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

PhilosophyGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $11.00

ISBN10: 0140442014
ISBN13: 9780140442014
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jun 30 1968
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.88
Language: English

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.

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