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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract: Book I

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Social Contract: Book I

Introduction:

With the publication of the Social Contract in 1762, Rousseau reached the
pinnacle of his political and philosophical development. He had come a long
way from the prize - winning essay acclaimed at Dijon in 1750. The rugged
individualism and distrust of all civil authority of the early Discourses now
gives way to the construction of a positive political society. "Anarchy" and
"natural morality in a state of nature" no longer have the same meaning as
before. There now arises a sense of community, of ...

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