Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Discourse On Political Economy Introduction: This essay was first published in the Encyclopedia of Diderot in 1755. Whether or not it was written before the Discourse On Inequality is subject to some controversy. The fact that it is the first essay to contain many positive political speculations about civil society rather than positing the superiority of a state of nature as in the previous Discourses, has led some authorities to see it as a prelude to the Social Contract. This, however, is not certain. Its most notable quality is the idea of the "General Will," a conc...
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