The Social Contract & Discourses - Hardcover

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1988297370 ISBN 13: 9781988297378

Publisher: Devoted Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The role of government and whether it is required was a great topic of discussion around the revolt against the French nobility at the time this book was written. The argument focuses around whether the idea of law and good conscious is written within each of us and that we all know how government should act and be carried out. The work then goes over the various forms of government and of them all which would fit the proposed "Social Contract" the best. Each as its own merits.

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Review

Great Ideas... is the right name for these slim, elegant paperbacks... They are written with precision, force, and care. ("The Wall Street Journal") Penguin Books hopes to provide an economical remedy for time-pressed readers in search of intellectual sustenance. ("USA Today")

From the Author

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The social contract came to me when I was fairly young, living in Geneva. It is unlike a convential book, which may take a few years to write, in that that it was in the making throughout my entire life.
If you find some of the ideas are not to your liking, then I make no excuse for them. They are my own so I cannot disown them. We can do only that which we think to be right.
The Social Contract lays out my view of soceity, and how I feel it should be

Jean Jacques Rousseau,

17th April 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: Devoted Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1988297370
• ISBN 13: 9781988297378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144