... as he yields others over himself" In this way Rousseau attempts to get over the problem of servants and masters by making every man both master and servant of every other. Once bound by the social contract in this way the public take on the form of the body politic, which ... the citizen who's mind is not clouded by his particular interests he will naturally seek to advance the general will. "Right men's opinions, and their morality will purge itself."(On the Social Contract Bk.4 chapter VII, p.88) Rousseau supposes that the state needs an official censor whose role would be to ... enco...

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