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Jean Jacques Roussea Social Contract Theory Analysis

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This is an extract from Jean Jacques Roussea social contract theory in which he tries to explain or to give theory to answer the question of the hour that was how to make a good society he gives the theory of social contract in which he coins the term general will and say that if general will act as the sovereign power it will make a good society as the society will take general decisions and where all the individuals give away his right and freedom to everyone but all individual or associations of general will will enjoy their individual rights and duties at the same time. I know it is strange but I have an example to prove it, say we all have equal number of apples and we cut them equally to distribute to rest of the class and everyone does …show more content…

Again his definitions astonished me ,I think this is best definition and yes I mean what is more good than following the laws that you have made for yourself? Yes that is what actual freedom or moral liberty is and I believe that equality is the soul of liberty there is in fact no liberty without it and I have the best example from our daily life , “religion” yes i thought of this example myself we all follow it very truly and we all have faith in it we equally participate in it and never tries to cross the rituals in specific term laws of it and we don’t realize that it is made my our own ancestors only so that their predecessors follow their style of living so it is nothing but laws that one prescribed fro one self one more example from our day to day routine can be time table we all to make to follow it . Its strange Simple day to day examples can be someone’s great philosophical

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