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Jean-Jacques Rousseau›The Social Contract›Full Text

The Social Contract

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762

4 chapters · 94 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Book I — The Foundations of Political Authority

~30 min · 14 pages

Book II — Legislation and the General Will

~48 min · 22 pages

Book III — Forms of Government

~71 min · 31 pages

Book IV — Constitutional Principles

~59 min · 27 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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