Rousseau [electronic resource] : a free community of equals /
by Cohen, Joshua.
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BookSeries: Founders of modern political and social thought: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 197 p.).ISBN: 9780191722875 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views | Democracy -- PhilosophyOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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