PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -In Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract), Rousseau argued that freedom and authority are not contradictory, since legitimate laws are founded on the general will of the citizens. In obeying the law, the individual citizen is thus only obeying himself as a member of the political community.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Social Contract, with its famous opening sentence ‘Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains’, stated instead that people could only experience true freedom if they lived in a civil society that ensured the rights and well-being of its citizens.

Detailed explanation-3: -By “the general will", Rousseau means a volition or a desire to pursue a common interest or good. It could be considered the shared, collective commitment to a common ideal or value of a people.

Detailed explanation-4: -The phrase “general will", as Rousseau used it, occurs in Article Six of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen), composed in 1789 during the French Revolution: The law is the expression of the general will.

Detailed explanation-5: -social contract, in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.