Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Majority Rule and its Unnatural Quality

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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Janez Potocnik's lecture on Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the 2010 Eco-Conference in Lisbon:

Primary Source: Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and edited by Victor Gourevitch

Secondary Source: Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (SUNY Series in Social and Political Thought) by Alessandro Ferrara

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