Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau
Social Contract
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)
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48 capítulos
4 h 46 min
- 1 1-01-Subject of the First Book1:40
- 2 1-02-Primitive Societies4:33
- 3 1-03-The Right of the Strongest2:44
- 4 1-04-Slavery10:28
- 5 1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention2:33
- 6 1-06-The Social Pact5:23
- 7 1-07-The Sovereign5:50
- 8 1-08-The Civil State3:15
- 9 1-09-Real Property7:36
- 10 2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable3:08
- 11 2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible4:43
- 12 2-03-Whether the General Will can ere2:58
- 13 2-04-The limits of the sovereign power8:49
- 14 2-05-The right of Life and Death5:15
- 15 2-06-The Law7:51
- 16 2-07-The Legislator8:32
- 17 2-08-The People5:32
- 18 2-09-The People (continued)6:11
- 19 2-10-The People (continued)7:22
- 20 2-11-The Different Systems of legislation4:09
- 21 2-12-Division of the Laws3:10
- 22 3-01-Government in general15:20
- 23 3-02-The Principle which constitutes the different forms of Government7:34
- 24 3-03-Classification of Governments3:22
- 25 3-04-Democracy4:48
- 26 3-05-Arisctocracy4:49
- 27 3-06-Monarchy12:43
- 28 3-07-Mixed Governments2:43
- 29 3-08-That every form of government is not fit for every country11:56
- 30 3-09-The Marks of a good Government2:54
- 31 3-10-The Abuse of the Government and its tendency to degenerate4:48
- 32 3-11-The Dissolution of the Body Politic3:06
- 33 3-12-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained2:26
- 34 3-13-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)3:37
- 35 3-14-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)2:00
- 36 3-15-Deputies or Representatives7:36
- 37 3-16-That the Institution of the Government is not a contract2:51
- 38 3-17-The Institution of the Government2:44
- 39 3-18-Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government4:33
- 40 4-01-That the General Will is indestructible4:54
- 41 4-02-Voting6:20
- 42 4-03-Elections4:31
- 43 4-04-The Roman Comitia21:51
- 44 4-05-The Tribuneship4:06
- 45 4-06-The Dictatorship6:06
- 46 4-07-The Censorship3:47
- 47 4-08-Civil Religion22:33
- 48 4-09-Conclusion1:07
