Rousseau and Wollstonecraft on the State of Nature and Society
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman are a culmination … Read more
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman are a culmination … Read more
In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published the book, Leviathan or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Our contemporaries have shortened … Read more
Thomas Hobbes wrote his flagship piece, Leviathan, in 1651, during the height of the English Civil war. The political turmoil of the time, coupled with … Read more
Jean Jacques Rousseau suggests a Social Contract; from this Social Contract the general will can be devolved. The general will is the result of people … Read more
Like history itself, American democracy is a process. There is no definite beginning and certainly no definite end. Since its inception, the details of its … Read more
A social contract, an agreement between a government (political system) and the people residing under its sovereignty in order to form an organized society or … Read more
Many philosophers have formed theories attempting to synthesize the organizing principles of civilized society. Most tend to highlight the betterment of society and the maintenance … Read more