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The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Du Contrat Social (1762). Argues that legitimate political authority arises when individuals unite into a body politic governed by the general will, the collective interest of the people as a whole, which every citizen is understood to have consented to obey.

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1762 1
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French 1
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosophers
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Political Philosophy, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to answer what he takes to be the fundamental question of politics, the reconciliation of the freedom of the individual with the authority of the state.
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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