Ebook: Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and the Social Contract

Cover; Rousseau and The Social Contract; Copyright; CONTENTS; REFERENCE KEY TO CITED ROUSSEAU TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ROUSSEAU, THE MAN; CONFESSIONS; GENEVA; ADOLESCENCE; FROM VENICE TO VINCENNES; MUSIC; FICTION; CONDEMNATION; IN RETROSPECT; 2 HUMAN NATURE AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; BASIC IDEAS; ROUSSEAU'S VOCABULARY OF THE PASSIONS; THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCE; THE NATURAL GOODNESS OF HUMANITY; THE ROLE OF ARTIFICE; WAS ROUSSEAU RIGHT?; THE PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY OF THE DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY; 3 MAN IS BORN FREE (Book 1, Chs 1-2); THE TEXT; MEN AS THEY ARE -- LAWS AS THEY COULD BE; MAN IS BORN FREE;Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social Contract*The ideas and arguments of the Social Contract*Rousseau's continuing importance to politics and philosophyRousseau and the Social Contract will be essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics, and anyone coming to Rousseau for the first time.