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(Jean - Jacques Rousseau) : Ethics Written Report

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century Swiss-born philosopher whose major work, The Social Contract, theorized about how to establish political communities. He argued that sovereignty belongs to the people, not monarchs. Rousseau believed that civilization corrupted human nature and that people were purer in more primitive societies. He is known for saying "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." The document provides background on Rousseau and summarizes the key ideas of his influential work The Social Contract.

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(Jean - Jacques Rousseau) : Ethics Written Report

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century Swiss-born philosopher whose major work, The Social Contract, theorized about how to establish political communities. He argued that sovereignty belongs to the people, not monarchs. Rousseau believed that civilization corrupted human nature and that people were purer in more primitive societies. He is known for saying "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." The document provides background on Rousseau and summarizes the key ideas of his influential work The Social Contract.

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ETHICS

Written Report

(Jean –Jacques Rousseau)

Submitted by:
Magalona, Ma. Grace
Orquia, Anndhrea S.

Submitted to:
Mrs. Faustina Tolentino

March 4, 2020
Social Contract Theory
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political
Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a
1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community
in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his
Discourse on Inequality (1754)
The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in
France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to
legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful
right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778,
Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and
novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
He qouted the term "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 Born in Switzerland, lived in France
 Main Work: The Social Contract
 Governments should be chosen by the people.
 Believed in the “great will”. That is what was best for the community was more
important than what was best for an individual.
 Argued that civilization had corrupted man. Man was purer and virtuous in more
primitive (less developed) societies.
 He felt that more modern societies led people caring about how they were seen by
others; people become greedy, envious, materialistic, etc.

Relation to Accounting

Relation to
Life

Relation to
Business/Economy
REFERENCE

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 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract

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