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Analysis Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau´s The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an educated watchmaker, political scientist and philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1712. He well-known as a famous French speaking philosopher, but he always describe himself as being Genevan. In addition, when he was 10 years old his family forced to flee Geneva to Paris. Moreover, Rousseau lived in 18th century during the age of enlightenment, his political ideology influenced the French revolution (1789-1799) and aided the development of nationalism and socialist theories. Rousseau provided his life for reading and writing he wrote a music, philosophy, romantic books, for such a reason like that many later philosopher were influenced by him. As well as the most famous works is The Social Contract book. The Social Contract contained on four main book and each book contain several chapters. In The Social Contract he believed that men were born good and innocent, and the corruption and sadness happened because of life experience and experience in …show more content…

To be more specific the Rousseau’s motion of convention is wrong but the right one is the motion of agreement as he mentioned in glossary of The Social Contract book. In order to put some notable touches on the idea of both convention and ‘agreement’ as it can be seen in writing critical commentary. Moreover, Rousseau conception of agreement is like the contract between society and authority the other conception of convention is like when the ruling power or authority or even king as he mentioned on the quote has a power over the individuals in society as he refers to the term of Despotism which means the absolute power of the authority or king, as a similar to the term of Dictatorship now a

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