HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Which Enlightenment philosopher believed that there was a social contract between the government and the people?
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Copernicus
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Rousseau
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Montesquieu
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Hobbes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in Geneva in 1712, was one of the 18th century’s most important political thinkers.
Detailed explanation-2: -But Rousseau also believed in the possibility of a genuine social contract, one in which people would receive in exchange for their independence a better kind of freedom, namely true political, or republican, liberty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in 1750.
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