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The social contract & discourses
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For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities; the form in which men cast their speculations, no less than the w…
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- AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
- SourceProject Gutenberg #46333
- Length123,132 words
- Chapters4
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
4 chapters
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- 01JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- 02Philosophy and Theology
- 03INTRODUCTION
- 04A NOTE ON BOOKS
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