social contract

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

Provides an introduction to society and social systems throughout history.

Presents the text of eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's essay on the principles of constitutional legitimacy.

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul works at a Harlem soup kitchen, where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

Three essays consider the history of the social contract. Explores the roots of the contract in the Bible, Roman Law, and Aristotle's "Politics." Examines how these principles were developed during the Middle Ages into contracts between feudal kings and feudatory. Further reviews how these principles evolved in the writings of Locke, Hume, and Rousseau.

Presents the texts of eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's essays on the principles of constitutional legitimacy.

Eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 treatise on liberty, democracy, and constitutional legitimacy.