Social Contract Theory

Author: (French) Rousseau He Zhaowu He Zhaowu
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Publishing Time: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is one of Rousseau's major works and one of the important classical documents in the history of world thought. Its theory reflects the democratic thought of the rising bourgeoisie. The author, targeting the hierarchical privileges of the feudal system, proposed the battle cry for freedom; demanding the establishment of a bourgeois democratic republic. The central idea of this book is: Man is born free and equal, the state can only be the property of free people freely agreed upon. Once freedom is forcibly deprived, the people have the right to revolution to seize freedom by violence; the sovereignty of the state resides with the people, the best form of government is a democratic republic.