Rousseau

Rousseau

• Rousseau՚s aim is to reconcile between two Pro-Liberty, the state where men have liberty in the state of nature, and are not bound by duties and regulations. And, the state of Anti-absolutism, the state where sovereign exercises power over the people
• Rousseau starts his writing with the famous “man is born free and everywhere he is in chains, ” the word chain here represents that the duties obligations one is bound by when the civil society is formed…

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Rousseau General Will: No Citizen Can be in A Relationship of Personal Dependence, by Obeying A Law, A Citizen Only Obeys Oneself

Rousseau avers in his work, The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right, that General-will is primarily based on two conditions. The two conditions are;

• No citizen can be in a relationship of personal dependence.
• By obeying a law, a citizen only obeys oneself.

No citizen can be in a relationship of personal dependence

Rousseau says, the power directed by the General-will is sovereignty. People as the sovereign themselves will form new laws, assert new duties for the benefit of the people as a w…

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