Rousseau’s The Social Contract is one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy ever written. Since its publication in 1762, it has enthused, enraged, provoked, inspired and frustrated its readers in equal measure. Though relatively short and attractively written, it is not an easy book to come to grips with. Despite Rousseau’s rhetorical skills and a gift for the memorable phrase, the ideas he treats are difficult and profound. His main issue is the proper place of the individual within society, and particularly how political institutions may best be organized so that the citizens of the state can flourish and prosper. As we shall see, in addressing this question he makes use of a subtle and original thesis of human nature and psychology, without which the political arguments that follow are hard to understand. Rousseau’s aims are ambitious: he wishes to demonstrate how people might find a way of living which respects and enhances their natural capacity for moral fulfilment. Though the answers he arrives at have by no means convinced all his readers, the text of The Social Contract is replete with insight into the human condition and the forces which govern it, and is as instructive as it is challenging.

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