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In the final analysis, Jean-Jacques Rousseau cannot be held entirely responsible for the actions of others when he already admits the existence of weaknesses in The Social Contract. While there is some coherence in Rousseau’s ideas of natural man and his foremost duty as a citizen bound to a social contract, Rousseau attached problematic conditions of a higher body in the “legislator” and a temporary dictatorship for exceptional circumstances. This also makes it difficult to fully implicate Maximilien Robespierre for the Reign of Terror when the event spiralled out of actions that had the noble intent of The Social Contract in mind, including all of its assumptions and its contradictory and precarious elements. The difficulty of pinning responsibility
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