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A 6 page paper which examines Rousseau's
"Social Contract" and "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality" as they relate to the concept
of general will. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RArouss.rtf
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more information on using this paper properly! Introduction "As a brilliant, undisciplined, and unconventional thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau" has gone down in history as one of the most profound philosophers
and social examiners of all time. His work ranged in focus, but often pointed to truths often ignored. Two of his most prominent works, "On the Social Contract" and "Discourse
on the Origin of Inequality" present us with different perspectives on numerous social conditions. One of the most important aspects of these conditions was that which focused on general will.
In the following paper we examine Rousseaus perspective concerning general will as it relates to the works mentioned. Concept of General Will Rousseau was often concerned with the
condition of man is it involved society and government. He believed that mankind should essentially go back to the basics, which offers us the foundation for understanding his theory of
general will. In the following we see some of this focus: "a contract by which the two parties obligate themselves to observe laws that are stipulated in it and that
form the bonds of their union. These people having, on the subject of social relations, united all their wills into a single one, all the articles on which this
will is explicit become so many fundamental laws obligating all members of the State without exception, and one of these laws regulates the choice and power of magistrates charged with
watching over the execution of the others. This power extends to everything that can maintain the constitution, without going so far as to change it. (169) It should be
noted that this excerpt is from "Second Discourse" which was essentially a precursor to "Social Contract," a text that "later works out...a vision of the modern legitimate state as a
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