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Is There a Case for the General Will?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

It is fashionable nowadays to discredit the theory of the general will, and an attempt to rehabilitate it is not likely to receive much sympathy. Nevertheless, I propose to give some reasons for adopting a more lenient attitude towards the theory, and to indicate some possible lines along which a rehabilitation might be conducted.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1950

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References

1 I owe the substance of this paragraph to Mr. J. L. Austin.