Part one of term paper
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778) was a French social philosopher and writer. His book Du Contrat Social, ou Principes du droit politique (Social Contract) published in 1762, emphasised the rights of the people over the government and was a significant influence on the French Revolution . Rousseau believed that people were not social beings ...

Part two of term paper
... of personal selflessness for the good of society as a whole. His answer therefore was to find a ‘form of association which defends and protects with all common forces the person and goods of each associate, and by means of which each one, whilst uniting with all, nevertheless obeys only himself and remains as free as before . . . .’ . When structuring his utopia of the ‘General Will’ Rousseau believed that ‘although the natural man perceived himself as an individual, he must learn to thi ...