The Social Contract Becky Cox White caroling parties

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The Social Contract Becky Cox White caroling partiesWith the publication of "The Social Contract" in 1761, Jean Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but corrupted by the conflicting interests within society. Here self interest degenerated into a state of war