Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas, today they will be looking into the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jaques Rousseau, and focusing on his Social Contract Theory.

A Social Contract is an agreement made between the people and the sovereign as to how society will be ruled, however Rousseau argued that in order to balance people’s freedom with the power of the sovereign it in fact the peoples themselves who should become the sovereign. This social contract theory proposes a direct democratic rule to society. Watch as George and John explain the theory and look at the benefits and challenges of this approach.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - Social Contract explained
1:27 - The State of Nature
3:02 - Inequality and Amor Propre
5:03 - People as the sovereign & the General Will
9:33 - Problems with direct democracy
12:05 - The Legislator

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