Louise and Rousseau's Social Contract Theory Louise's character on the other hand seems more assertive, confident with herself and self-reliant than Thelma. ... This is the point where she seems to break the social contract as theorized by Rousseau. Her view on the male-female social relationship is a "reinforcement of unequal and exploitative social relations that are now backed by law and state power" (Bertram, 2014). ... It seems that the pair has made a social contract with each other in other to survive for mutual benefit. Moreover, this social contract goes against th...

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Social contract theorist John Locke argued that governments" major responsibility was the preservation of private property and that men were born equal and with equal rights in nature; these rights cannot be annulled by any person or any thing. ... Popular consent, popular sovereignty and limited government can all be traced back to Locke's social contract theory. Under what Locke termed "social contract theory", the consent of the people is the only true basis of any sovereign's right to rule. ... "If governments act improperly, they break their "contract" with the people and no l...

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At first reading, Jean Rousseau's "The Social Contract" and Ayn Rand's "Anthem" seem to contain two different philosophies, including completely different views on how a society should be run. ... However the goal of both social doctrines is the achievement of happiness. ... "Duty and interest therefore equally oblige the two contracting parties to give each other help." ... Under the social contract the society is run by itself. ... Anthem can only be viewed as a refutation of "The Social Contract" if Rousseau is misunderstood to require a society that is not imposed by consent of ...

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One writer, Voltaire, wrote on the subject of free will pertaining to human writes through a satire called Candide, and another, Rousseau wrote a "social contract". ... He wrote the "Social Contract". ... Throughout the "social contract" Rousseau discusses the ridiculous promises that are made by the government, but that are not truly kept. ...

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(p122) Another writer that came out of this time period who had just as much to say about governments was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the author of The Social Contract in 1762. ... The Social Contract ignited the idea that governments were really there to serve the people. The essence of The Social Contract is that "each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole".... Interestingly, The Social Contract has a whole chapter discussing how not a...

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John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Locke, who wrote The Second Treatise of Civil Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote, The Social Contract, both have unique views of nature and "social contract." ...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 and was considered one of the best writers and philosophers of his time. He was known for his hectic lifestyle of traveling back and forth between Paris and his homeland of Geneva from the age of 16, when he suddenly found himself an orphan. His literary career...

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According to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, there are four stages to the social evolution in humans; it's natural state, family, nation, and civil society. ... This leads us to the first stage of social evolution: man in it's natural state. ... The solution to this terrible conflict is a contract, proposed by the rich, to form political societies. This contract is a grotesque trick played by the rich on the poor. ...

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