Political and Philosophical Enlightenment
The resulting state of conflict led Rousseau to suggest that the first state was invented as a kind of social contract made at the suggestion of the rich and powerful. This original contract was deeply flawed as the wealthiest and most
Rousseau on solitude
Rousseau projected a nightmare vision of the capitalist world onto the canvass of works like the Social Contract and the Discourses on Inequality, a nightmare he hoped to do away with through a new social contract and organisation of
Do you think Rousseau would like this?
Blair's new social contract should be viewed with scepticism. My hunch is this is little more than a publicity stunt pledging "a new more explicit contract between the state and the citizen on agreed public outcomes" but failing to
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - an Idiot
Given the history that led to totalitarian governments in many countries, seeking More’s Utopia, and Rousseau’s “social contract” led to enormous loss of human life over these past two centuries. Man’s capacity to define enlightened
Blair and the death of society
Rather than this silly fixation with Hobbes, he should get up to speed with Locke, Rousseau, and the American Revolutionaries. Perhaps, most importantly, he should take heed of Proudhon:. “What really is the Social Contract?
Affirmation of Diversity through Political Contract
This kind of social contract, I assume, will guarantee the diversity of a pluralistic society. The contract acts as a platform for political pluralism to achieve unity in diversity. Rousseau’s social contract allows the participants to
Misunderstanding the Social Contract
The police power of government provides for the basic social stabiilty that allows the That point was made most poetically by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Discourse on the the favorite contract theorist of the American framers.
[rousseau] a gracchus on the not so noble savage
No problem up till here but then this Social Contract business gets in the way. Rousseau presupposes the capacity of all men to reason in order to It is the serpent who perverts it but it’s also society, as Rousseau said.
Just Because It's an Old Idea Doesn't Mean It's a Bad Idea
It has been often noted, indeed, that social contract theories relied on a specific anthropological conception of man as either "good" or "evil". Thomas Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) are the most
A Nation of Cowards
Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, and whose moral and social “re-education” is the object of liberal social policies. and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all shared the view that the possession of arms is
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