WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As described in Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract), such liberty is to be found in obedience to what Rousseau called the volonté générale (“general will”)-a collectively held will that aims at the common good or the common interest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although similar ideas can be traced to the Greek Sophists, social-contract theories had their greatest currency in the 17th and 18th centuries and are associated with the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hobbes theory of Social Contract supports absolute sovereign without giving any value to individuals, while Locke and Rousseau supports individual than the state or the government. 4. To Hobbes, the sovereign and the government are identical but Rousseau makes a distinction between the two.