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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
This is how Rousseau, an 18th Century philosopher, opens his treatise on good government. The writing is not so much about a good form of government, but rather how government should run to be the best for the people. Of some of the ideas he proposes is that the law giver and the sovereign are two d...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
The one star rating does not mean I don’t recommend reading The Social Contract. Everyone should. It’s that important, that influential and reading this was certainly eye-opening. One star does not mean this was tedious, dry or difficult. In fact this treatise is not long, is easy to understand and ...
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