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“Rousseau strove to reconcile the liberty of the individual and the institution of Government through a new vision of the Contract-Theory of Government.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762) opens with one of political philosophy's most quoted lines and sets out to solve the very problem it names.

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  • Diagnosing the Problem: Civil Society's Broken Promise
  • The General Will: Rousseau's New Vision of Contract
  • Reconciling Liberty and Government: Sovereign versus Magistracy
  • Comparison with Hobbes and Locke
  • The Seeds of Conflict: Vagueness and Vulnerability to Misuse
  • Critical Examination
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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