Jean-Jacques Rousseau is famous for reconceiving the social contract as a compact between the individual and a collective βgeneral willβ aimed at the common good and reflected in the laws of an ideal state and for maintaining that existing society rests on a false social contract that perpetuates inequality and rule by the rich.
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