The Social Contract and Discourses

This 1913 edition of Rousseau’s works includes the famous Social Contract as well as 3 discourses on Arts and Sciences, the Origin of Inequality, and Political Economy. Rousseau’s writings inspired liberals and non-liberals alike which makes him rather controversial in the history of political thought.
The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated with an Introduction by G.D. H. Cole (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1923).
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- Editor: G.D.H. Cole
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- A NOTE ON BOOKS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT or PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT
- FOREWORD
- BOOK I
- CHAPTER I: subject of the first book
- CHAPTER II: the first societies
- CHAPTER III: the right of the strongest
- CHAPTER IV: slavery
- CHAPTER V: that we must always go back to a first convention
- CHAPTER VI: the social compact
- CHAPTER VII: the sovereign
- CHAPTER VIII: the civil state
- CHAPTER IX: real property
- BOOK II
- CHAPTER I: that sovereignty is inalienable
- CHAPTER II: that sovereignty is indivisible
- CHAPTER III: whether the general will is fallible
- CHAPTER IV: the limits of the sovereign power
- CHAPTER V: the right of life and death
- CHAPTER VI: law
- CHAPTER VII: the legislator
- CHAPTER VIII: the people
- CHAPTER IX: the people (continued)
- CHAPTER X: the people (continued)
- CHAPTER XI: the various systems of legislation
- CHAPTER XII: the division of the laws
- BOOK III
- CHAPTER I: government in general
- CHAPTER II: the constituent principle in the various forms of government
- CHAPTER III: the division of governments
- CHAPTER IV: democracy
- CHAPTER V: aristocracy
- CHAPTER VI: monarchy
- CHAPTER VII: mixed governments
- CHAPTER VIII: that all forms of government do not suit all countries
- CHAPTER IX: the marks of a good government
- CHAPTER X: the abuse of government and its tendency to degenerate
- CHAPTER XI: the death of the body politic
- CHAPTER XII: how the sovereign authority maintains itself
- CHAPTER XIII: the same (continued)
- CHAPTER XIV: the same (continued)
- CHAPTER XV: deputies or representatives
- CHAPTER XVI: that the institution of government is not a contract
- CHAPTER XVII: the institution of government
- CHAPTER XVIII: how to check the usurpations of government
- BOOK IV
- CHAPTER I: that the general will is indestructible
- CHAPTER II: voting
- CHAPTER III: elections
- CHAPTER IV: the roman comitia
- CHAPTER V: the tribunate
- CHAPTER VI: the dictatorship
- CHAPTER VII: the censorship
- CHAPTER VIII: civil religion
- CHAPTER IX: conclusion
- A DISCOURSE which won the prize at the academy of dijon in 1750, on this question proposed by the academy: has the restoration of the arts and sciences had a purifying effect upon morals?
- PREFACE
- A DISCOURSE ON THE MORAL EFFECTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES Decipimur specie recti.—Horace.
- THE FIRST PART
- THE SECOND PART
- A DISCOURSE on a subject proposed by the academy of dijon: what is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorised by natural law?
- dedication to the REPUBLIC OF GENEVA
- PREFACE
- A DISSERTATION on the origin and foundation of the inequality of mankind
- THE FIRST PART
- THE SECOND PART
- APPENDIX1
- A DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
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