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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau’s views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radica...
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Episodes
1-01 – Subject of the First Book 02.01.2026 46:47
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1-04 – Slavery 01.01.2026 10:28
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3-01 – Government in General 31.12.2025 15:20
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3-06 – Monarchy 30.12.2025 12:43
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3-08 – That every form of government is not fit for every country 29.12.2025 11:56
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3-16 – That the Institution of the Government is not a contract 28.12.2025 2:51
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4-04 – The Roman Comitia 27.12.2025 21:51
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4-08 – Civil Religion 26.12.2025 22:33
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