the social contract

The "social contract" of the social critic, philosopher and political writer Jean -Jacques Rousseau, written in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and he is one of his most famous works, and is considered one of the most important intellectual travels that were written in that era in the West, and it was translated into Arabic Adel Zuaiter. The book discussed the right and its preference in society, slavery, social charter, complex governments, and the state of civilization and its impact on the individual and society, and he considered that ownership is the limits of power with sovereignty, as he talked about the right of life and death, law, people, dealing with different ways of polling, and dividing laws And the division of governments as well, and referred to democracy and aristocracy and their relationship to society. After religious legitimacy is no longer the basis for governance in Europe, finding a new legitimacy has become necessary, in order to determine the responsibilities and duties of the ruler and the ruled and the features of political rule are clear. This contributed to the emergence of a number of thinkers and philosophers who created a new legal charter that governs the relationship between the two parties, and was among these thinkers Rousseau, along with another group of enlightening thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.