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What is the main idea of the social contract?
Social contract theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior. Some people believe that if we live according to a social contract, we can live morally by our own choice and not because a divine being requires it.
What was the purpose of the social contract by Rousseau?
Berman,M.,1970,The Politics of Authenticity,New York: Atheneum.
Why did Rousseau write the social contract?
Why did Rousseau write the social contract? The Social Contract was written by Rousseau in 1762 in response to the political theory that citizens enter into an unwritten contract with each other to lift each other out of their primitive state and establish government for the general will and good of the people.
What is social contract according to Rousseau?
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract?
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality. The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs