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'The assumptions lying behind Rousseau's general will is that there is an objective common good, distinct from the particular interests or wishes of the individuals composing society'.
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Edward Wingate Politics A Noriko Yonamine Thursday 14:15 'The assumptions lying behind Rousseau's general will is that there is an objective common good, distinct from the particular interests or wishes of the individuals composing society' Jean-Jacques Rousseau's idea of society becoming civil through it's progression from natural liberty, the freedom for the individual to do what they like, when they like, is based very firmly upon the theory of the 'social contract'. The essence of this contract is that humans live not by the rules that authority makes for them - his views on what and whom authority is will be exposed later in this essay - but by the rules that they want to live by. In his view, by living by their own rules, humans are in their freest state. Rousseau defined the shared wishes of all as the 'general will', and these shared wants of each individual in society, allowed progression from...
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