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“Rousseau’s theory of Social Contract in Hobbes’s Leviathan with its head chopped off.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Western Political Thought

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The well-known remark holds that Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762) keeps the body of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651), an absolute and indivisible sovereignty, but removes the ruling head, the separate sovereign person. Rousseau saw the kinship himself. In a 1767 letter to the Marquis de Mirabeau he found no tolerable middle between the most…

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  • The Body Retained
  • The Head Removed
  • Is the Headless Body Safer?
  • The Indian Anchor
  • Conclusion
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