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Rousseau's Social Contract
Title: Rousseau's Social Contract
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 878 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Rousseau's Social Contract
The first of the four benefits of society conferred by Rousseau’s Social Contract is that we are all equals and shall be treated as such. In this, he describes a general will which dictates the actions of the individual and basically the good of the whole is the good of its parts. Rousseau says, “Each of us puts in common his person and his whole power under the supreme direction of the general will; …showed first 75 words of 878 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 878 total…in their respective works, display a degree of dislike for democracy. They both feel that most forms of government are inferior and will eventually lead to another undesirable form. According to Machiavelli, principality leads to tyranny, which leads to an aristocracy, which leads to an oligarchy, which in turn leads to a democracy, which finally leads to complete anarchy. Plato basically holds the same true only with different terms such as “timocracy” and “despotism”.
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