The Social Contract


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(4.1 stars; 124 reviews)

The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas) (4 hr 46 min)

Capítulos

1-01-Subject of the First Book 1:40 Leído por Diana Majlinger
1-02-Primitive Societies 4:33 Leído por Neeru Iyer
1-03-The Right of the Strongest 2:44 Leído por Neeru Iyer
1-04-Slavery 10:28 Leído por Rex Koontz
1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention 2:33 Leído por Justin Tovar
1-06-The Social Pact 5:23 Leído por Justin Tovar
1-07-The Sovereign 5:50 Leído por Christian Al-Kadi
1-08-The Civil State 3:15 Leído por Christian Al-Kadi
1-09-Real Property 7:36 Leído por Christian Al-Kadi
2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable 3:08 Leído por Sienna
2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible 4:43 Leído por Sienna
2-03-Whether the General Will can ere 2:58 Leído por Sienna
2-04-The limits of the sovereign power 8:49 Leído por Sienna
2-05-The right of Life and Death 5:15 Leído por Availle
2-06-The Law 7:51 Leído por Patrick Wells
2-07-The Legislator 8:32 Leído por Anna Simon
2-08-The People 5:32 Leído por Ezwa
2-09-The People (continued) 6:11 Leído por Ezwa
2-10-The People (continued) 7:22 Leído por Ezwa
2-11-The Different Systems of legislation 4:09 Leído por Daniel Watkins
2-12-Division of the Laws 3:10 Leído por Daniel Watkins
3-01-Government in general 15:20 Leído por Christian Al-Kadi
3-02-The Principle which constitutes the different forms of Government 7:34 Leído por Christian Al-Kadi
3-03-Classification of Governments 3:22 Leído por Anna Simon
3-04-Democracy 4:48 Leído por Anna Simon
3-05-Arisctocracy 4:49 Leído por Anna Simon
3-06-Monarchy 12:43 Leído por Anna Simon
3-07-Mixed Governments 2:43 Leído por Sienna
3-08-That every form of government is not fit for every country 11:56 Leído por Sienna
3-09-The Marks of a good Government 2:54 Leído por Sienna
3-10-The Abuse of the Government and its tendency to degenerate 4:48 Leído por Sienna
3-11-The Dissolution of the Body Politic 3:06 Leído por Sienna
3-12-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained 2:26 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-13-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued) 3:37 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-14-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued) 2:00 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-15-Deputies or Representatives 7:36 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-16-That the Institution of the Government is not a contract 2:51 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-17-The Institution of the Government 2:44 Leído por Sibella Denton
3-18-Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government 4:33 Leído por Sibella Denton
4-01-That the General Will is indestructible 4:54 Leído por Sibella Denton
4-02-Voting 6:20 Leído por Sibella Denton
4-03-Elections 4:31 Leído por Sibella Denton
4-04-The Roman Comitia 21:51 Leído por Rex Koontz
4-05-The Tribuneship 4:06 Leído por Daniel Watkins
4-06-The Dictatorship 6:06 Leído por Daniel Watkins
4-07-The Censorship 3:47 Leído por Daniel Watkins
4-08-Civil Religion 22:33 Leído por Rex Koontz
4-09-Conclusion 1:07 Leído por Daniel Watkins

Reseñas

An intriguing argument and a decent recording


(5 stars)

I found Rousseau's argument quite compelling. I also found most readers familiar with the presentation style typical of this kind of work.

Amazing readers


(4.5 stars)

The readers were very easy to understand.


(1.5 stars)

Thick accent of the reader makes this difficult to follow

A follow up title on Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’


(5 stars)

A really interesting read, innovatively read and recorded by several readers - a good contrast good for the ears. I enjoyed it, THANK YOU.

a great audiobook


(5 stars)

I found the numerable amount of readers to be refreshing and highlighting the different subjects one must see through to tackle Rousseau's ideas


(5 stars)

very informative, look at the political situation and signaling in the media today and most of the negative affects written of a declining state are manifest

Awful recording


(1 stars)

A lot ot dead air frustrating. I am hoping to find another version on librivox.org or elsewhere.

it's great


(5 stars)

always good to read in historical texts, the similarities of today, restores sanity into my life