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The social contract

Paperback • 1998

The social contract

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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<p><strong>With an Introduction by Derek Matravers.</strong></p><p>In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.</p><p>Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the i...Show more

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