Part 1 of my critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract
Here’s the first part of this next book I decided to go through: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famous (or infamous, if you’re like me) Social Contract.
Show notes here.
In this part, Rousseau starts out claiming he wants to treat man as he really is, but immediately makes some simply false claims, which undermine his sincerity.
One brief bit of light is his argument against slavery, which is moderately clever, but my understanding is that he eventually gives government effectively unlimited power… kind of defeats his point.
Part 1 covers the introduction and chapters 1-4 of Book 1.
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Return to the table of contents for this critique here.
Intro quote from here:
https://mises.org/mises-daily/socialism-vs-economic-freedom
Intro music by INPLUSMUSIC, courtesy Unsplash:
https://pixabay.com/users/lnplusmusic-47631836/