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A 5 page paper which
examines why Rousseau’s “Social Contract” is still relevant today. The paper discusses
the relationship between freedom, justice, liberty, and law. No additional sources cited.
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we stop to examine our own world. Despite the fact that many of the great minds are long dead, their words, their perspectives, their philosophies still seem to possess a
great deal of validity for a variety of reasons. In the following paper we examine the work "Social Contract" by Rousseau examining why his work is still popular, important, and
how its themes of freedom, justice, liberty and law seem so valid today. Social Contract One of Rousseaus most powerful points that seems to illustrate the validity of
the work today is as follows: "MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than
they" (Book I). There is, in all honesty, no doubting that such a statement holds just as true today as it ever did. This is incredibly apparent today as we
face the possibility of war. Though we, personally, are enraged at the idea of terrorism, we are not sure that we would like to actively attack anyone even remotely involved.
Yet, here we are, at the mercy and in the chains, of a government that controls our countrys actions. This is, of course, a simple example, but a powerful example
nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "social contract." This flows into an understanding of
what Rousseau defines in terms of liberty wherein he states that "This common liberty results from the nature of man. His first law is to provide for his own preservation,
his first cares are those which he owes to himself; and, as soon as he reaches years of discretion, he is the sole judge of the proper means of preserving
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