MPSE-003: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx)
Course Code: MPSE-003
Assignment Code: ASST/MPSE-003//2016-17
Total Marks: 100
Q.
7. (a) Critical appreciation of Rousseau
Ans.
Critical Appreciation: What Jean-Jacques Rousseau meant is
that government, social class, wealth and poverty are man-made prisons in which
people trap each other. In the “state of nature” to which we are all born,
those things do not exist. Remember that in his day there were no democracies
to speak of. People everywhere were ruled by absolute monarchs whose word was law.
Rousseau does not go so far as to claim that simple good manners, altruism and
general decent behaviour are also prisons, although some libertarian philosophers
certainly have gone that far. The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political
Right (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized
about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the
problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse
on Inequality (1754). Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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