... he holds are necessary to preserve a legitimate authority and will go on to discuss whether Rousseau had a "negative" or a "positive" concept of liberty in mind when drawing up the social contract. Rousseau holds that by nature men are free, but left to themselves they will inevitably enslave each other ... Social Contract Bk.1, chapter VI, p8) that is, how might a man give up some or all of his natural liberty to a group, in the hope of gaining greater freedom, without alienating or enslaving himself or, how might one give up freedom in order to gain freedom? Rousseau asserts that, "the ...

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