The social contract & discourses
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- First published
- 1762 (The Social Contract)
- Pages
- 211Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 4 hours9 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Rousseau asks under what conditions people could obey laws and still count as free. The accompanying discourses bring questions about inequality and social development into a collection that is broader than one treatise on government.
It helps to separate the historical conjectures of the discourses from the argument about political legitimacy. They ask related questions but build their answers in different ways.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- political philosophy
- arguments about freedom
- Enlightenment debates over inequality
Things You May Not Know About The social contract & discourses
- The Social Contract is divided into four books.
- The volume pairs that work with other writings by Rousseau.
About this edition
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