Blog # 1: The Social Contract
After reading Rousseau’s Social Contract, I’ve come to realize just how pervasive social contracts are in our society. The main philosophical question The Social Contract attempts to answer is how we can we be free and live together? Put another away, how can we live together without succumbing to the force and authority of others. Rousseau believes that this can be accomplished by submitting our individual wills to the general will, created through agreement with other equal individuals (Rousseau 1762, 7).
One area of life where social contracts are especially prevalent is in the home environment. The main idea behind the social contract is that everyone in an organization or group of people is there for the
After reading Rousseau’s Social Contract, I’ve come to realize just how pervasive social contracts are in our society. The main philosophical question The Social Contract attempts to answer is how we can we be free and live together? Put another away, how can we live together without succumbing to the force and authority of others. Rousseau believes that this can be accomplished by submitting our individual wills to the general will, created through agreement with other equal individuals (Rousseau 1762, 7).
One area of life where social contracts are especially prevalent is in the home environment. The main idea behind the social contract is that everyone in an organization or group of people is there for the