Ethics and Values / Unit 3 Ethics 134 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rousseau's Social Contract
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The idea
Rousseau's social contract trades natural freedom for civil freedom: each person, joining with all, obeys laws the whole community gives itself.
In practice
Rousseau's phrase carries the idea: man "is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" — legitimate chains being the ones a people forges for itself.
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