Jean-jacques rousseau social contract full text

AuthorRousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778TranslatorCole, G.

D. H. (George Douglas Howard), 1889-1959Title The Social Contract & Discourses Alternate Title The Social Contract and Discourses Note Reading ease score: 46.6 (College-level).

Difficult to read. Credits E-text prepared by Marc D'Hooghe (http://www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com)Summary "The Social Contract & Discourses" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a foundational work of political philosophy written in the late 18th century.

The text explores the relationship between individuals and the state, examining how legitimate political authority can be established and justified. Central to Rousseau's argument is the idea of the social contract, which posits that individuals collectively agree to form a society that is governed by th