1. Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. ... Book I of Rousseau's The Social Contract stresses that this contract will sustain liberty and/or freedom more efficiently than the state of nature, thus, paving the way for lawful and sound political power. ... Book I is most important to The Social Contract because it describes the makeup of the civil state that Rousseau...
- Word Count: 7114
- Approx Pages: 28
- Grade Level: Undergraduate