JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU OU L'AUSTÈRE DEMOCRATIE
Although it may seem as a paradox, but in 1767, in a letter addressed to the Marquis de Mirabeau, JJ Rousseau declared his intention to find a government form to put the people above the law. Admitting the impossibility of such unnecessary step, JJ Rousseau recognized that his famous Social Contract...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Danubius University
2008-09-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Danubius: Juridica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.juridica-danubius.ro/continut/arhiva/A76.pdf |
| Summary: | Although it may seem as a paradox, but in 1767, in a letter addressed to the Marquis de Mirabeau, JJ Rousseau declared his intention to find a government form to put the people above the law. Admitting the impossibility of such unnecessary step, JJ Rousseau recognized that his famous Social Contract is condemned to remain a spirit construction. The author of this article wonders, along with Otto von Gierke, if JJ Rousseau somehow imagined the Social Contract, taking as a framework the democratic ideas of his forefathers about freedom and equality, filling the frame with the contents of the Hobbes’s absolutist Contract. Such a perspective implies a lot of nuances that the author underlines in this article. |
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| ISSN: | 1844-8062 2065-3891 |