Democracy and the General Will.

Ebisch, Glen A.

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Democracy and the General Will

Ebisch, Glen A.

Journal of Thought, 12, 1, 14-20, Jan 77

Rousseau's concept of the General Will has been the subject of long-standing scholarly debate. Attempts to understand the General Will as Rousseau's answer to the wider problem in democratic theory as a whole of how self-interests are to be reconciled in a democracy. (Author/RK)

Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Concept Formation, Democracy, Moral Development, Persuasive Discourse, Politics, Theories

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