Problem
Rousseau's On the Social Contract
I. Why does no one have an interest in making the social contract burdensome according to Rousseau?
II. People must give others a right over themselves when they enter into the social contract. What does Rousseau say they gain in return for this loss? How does he justify this claim?
III. In what way does Rousseau say that are humans changed when they leave the state of nature and start living in civil society under a government?
IV. Rousseau says that the general will is always right and tends to the common advantage. However what the people decide is not always right or to the common advantage. What causes them to go wrong according to Rousseau?