Title
Some Considerations of Democracy and Science in the political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Date of Award
1976
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Political Science
Supervisor
D. Novak
Language
English
Abstract
This thesis is a comparative study of Rousseau's Premier Discours and-Du Contract Social. The essay will attempt to establish the thesis that science is both indispensable and dangerous to a democratic order. Democracy, we assume, presupposes self-restraint, more specifically, the self-restraint of the few best citizens. The question then is-·does science support those virtues by which men may be persuaded to serve democracy or, quite the contrary, to destroy it?
Recommended Citation
Giannis, Vassilios, "Some Considerations of Democracy and Science in the political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (1976). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4844.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/4844
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