The Role of the Will in Jean-Jacques Rousseau´s Polítical Philosophy

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  • Felipe Augusto Mariano Pires Autor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36592/opiniaofilosofica.v9i2.880

Abstract

This work sought to understand the concepts of will of all, will of the body and general will in Rousseau, seeking their relationship with the idea of people´s tyranny and the participation of people in power. We saw that who occupies the centrality of the Rousseau´s political philosophy is his concept of general will, ruling the legittimate State and withdrawing the virtue from the centrality of the political philosophy´s argumentative core and that the general will deals with the idea of people´s tyranny through a mechanism that excludes the will of all and places the people as sovereign body and legislator, which defines a good form of government.

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Published

2019-02-03

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): Ethics and political philosophy: classical approaches, contemporary problems

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Varia

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PIRES, Felipe Augusto Mariano. The Role of the Will in Jean-Jacques Rousseau´s Polítical Philosophy. Revista Opinião Filosófica, Porto Alegre, v. 9, n. 2, p. 362–385, 2019. DOI: 10.36592/opiniaofilosofica.v9i2.880. Disponível em: https://mail.opiniaofilosofica.org/index.php/opiniaofilosofica/article/view/880.. Acesso em: 24 oct. 2026.