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Democracy According to the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

in embracing a direct democracy. It is not feasible, even in Rousseaus time and place. Rousseau writes: "In every real democracy, ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Political and Philosophical Zenith Reached in The Social Contract

This report discusses Rousseau's writing of The Social Contract and what it reflects about his political philosophical development...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke's 'Social Contract' Perspectives

In five pages this report examines what a 'social contract' means from the philosophical perspectives of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...

Slavery and The Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

In sixteen pages this paper discusses slavery within the context of Jean Jacques Rousseau's social philosophical treatise, The Soc...

Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Freedom

woman explains that a security guard at Kennedy Airport forced her to consume three bottles of her own breast milk in order to dem...

Contemporary Relevance of the 'Social Contract' of Jean Jacques Rousseau

nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "so...

Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau and its Contemporary Relevance

Middle East. Ever since the 9-11 attacks on the United States, much has been made about totalitarian dictatorships, and the hatred...

Freedom Theme in the Film Deliverance and the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

freedom supersede mans other concerns in daily life. Before exploring philosophy in respect to freedom, a student writing on this...

Justice and Social Good According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper examines justice and social good in a contrast and comparison of the perspectives of John Locke and Jean ...

Moral and Social Education in Book IV of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile Or, On Education

the pains he has felt, and that there are others whom he ought to conceive of as able to feel them too" (222). There is a distinc...

Jacques Louis David's Painting, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Philosophy and Duty to the State

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Inequality Permissibility

In five pages this report examines the permissibility of social inequality according to philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Joh...

Democracy Concepts of Jean Jacques Rousseau

citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...

Nature According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper examines how the state of nature is addressed in the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau. One sourc...

Common Good and General Will According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourses on Origins of Inequality in a consideration of the ...

Education and Human Development According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

Legislation According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper discusses how legislation is represented in the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Five sources are ci...

Individualism, Society, and Political Ideology According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

Property Ownership Rights According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke

is clearly stated. Locke see that all land was commonly owned and the property of all of mankind, and as such there is a natural s...

Liberty According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these philosophers' perspectives on liberty based upon Rousseau's First and Second...

Community and Inequality According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

Property According to Edmund Burke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In seven pages this paper discusses how property was viewed by philosophers Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in Franc...

Government Representation According to John Stuart Mill and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In four pages this research paper compares the views of representation featured in Considerations on Representative Government by ...

State of Nature According to Karl Marx, Georg Hegel and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how Rousseau's state of nature is rejected by Hegel and Marx. There are 4 sources cited in the b...

Government According to John Locke, Karl Marx, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages the concept of government is discussed in a contrast and comparison of the philosophical views offered by Marx and R...

Property and Justice According to David Hume and Jean Jacques Rousseau

nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...

'Pursuit of Happiness' According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

the law of property and of inequality" (04.htm). While Locke essentially agreed with Rousseau that in a natural state, humanity l...

Society and Religion According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

to religion and instead evaluates religion solely on how well a particular form of religion serves the purposes of the state. Rous...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...