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The idea of the general will is at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy. The general will is not the will of the majority. Rather, it is the will of the political organism that he sees as an entity with a life of its own. Rousseau permits no disobedience of the general will once its decisions have been made. Man's will must...
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As used by Rousseau, the "general will" is identical to the rule of law, In 1952 Jacob Talmon characterized Rousseau's "general will" as leading to a...
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Rousseau's general will inspired his followers with what they saw as a promise of revolutionary moral and political transformation.
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General will (volonté générale) is inextricably associated with the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). While Rousseau appropriated the general...
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by Jean Jacques Rousseau 1762 Translated by G. D. H. Cole, public domain Rendered into HTML and text by Jon Roland of the Constitution Society 3. Whether the General Will is Fallible...
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This is a normative concept in that the general will is that which the sovereign assembly of citizens ought to decide. For Rousseau the general will is not created by the sovereign but discovered by it.
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contents: introduction · life · nature, wholeness and romanticism · social contract and the general will · on education · on the development of the person · conclusion · further reading and references · 'Make the citizen good by training', Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, 'and everything else will follow'.
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b. The General Will ; c. Equality, Freedom, This is primarily because Rousseau, like Hobbes, attacks the classical notion of human beings as naturally social. Finally, in terms of its influence, the Second Discourse is now much more widely read, and is more representative of Rousseau’s general philosophical outlook.
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; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; (1712-1778) Life and Works; . . Inequality; . . Social Contract; . . General Will; Bibliography; Internet Sources As a brilliant, undisciplined, and unconventional thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent most of his life being driven by controversy back and forth between Paris and his native Geneva.
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Individual Wills and the General Will; Jean-Jacques Rousseau stresses, like John Lockem the idea of a social contract as the basis of society. In reality, each individual may have one particular will as a man that is different from-or contrary to-the general will which he has as a citizen. His own particular interest...
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