The Social Contract
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The Social Contract

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Social Contract

About this book

The eighteenth-century philosopher's landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions.
  "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
 
With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of the Enlightenment, Rousseau took aim squarely at the all-powerful French monarchy, proclaiming that no despot, no matter how powerful, had the right to terrorize his people. He laid out a plan for a new kind of government—an idea that was radical then, and remains so now.
 
The Social Contract is a landmark document from a fascinating period in world history and an invaluable guide to the foundations of modern democracy.
 
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  5. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, OR, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT
  6. FOREWORD
  7. BOOK I
  8. BOOK II
  9. BOOK III
  10. BOOK IV
  11. A DISCOURSE: HAS THE RESTORATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES HAD A PURIFYING EFFECT UPON MORALS?
  12. A DISCOURSE: WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY AMONG MEN, AND IS IT AUTHORISED BY NATURAL LAW?
  13. A DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
  14. Copyright