the social contract

Author's name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The book "The Social Contract" by the great philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most important intellectual works written during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras in the West. After the fall of religious legitimacy as the basis of government in Europe, it became necessary to search for an alternative legitimacy upon which political rule could be based and upon which the responsibilities, duties, and rights of the ruler and the ruled could be determined. Therefore, many thinkers and philosophers emerged who worked to create a new legal charter governing the relationship between the two parties. Among these thinkers who sought to create this charter was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who proposed the idea of ​​the social contract, along with a group of other Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.