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Rousseau

Cohen, Joshua, 1951-

Rousseau a free community of equals / [electronic resource] : Joshua Cohen. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 197 p.). - Founders of modern political and social thought . - Founders of modern political and social thought. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.

9780191722875 (ebook) : No price


Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Political and social views.


Democracy--Philosophy.

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