Revolutions: Three Perspectives: Rousseau's The Social Contract, Paine's Common Sense, and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

Re:Organizing America

ISBN 10: 145381860X / ISBN 13: 9781453818602

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revolutions: Three Perspectives: Rousseau's The Social Contract, Paine's Common Sense, and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 145381860X
• ISBN 13: 9781453818602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Freedom can lead to liberty, or it can descend into chaos. Rousseau's The Social Contract, Paine's Common Sense, and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France encompass the ideas, progress, and results of reform and revolutionary change. Rousseau reasoned that people are born free and act as a collective sovereign - owing both freedom and duty under the auspices of the general will, embodied in government. Paine wrote Common Sense in the seminal year of 1775. Using a reasoned and accessible style, he brought forth numerous arguments to demonstrate the logic of launching an American Revolution. Burke's Reflections, while specifically aimed at the French Revolution, demonstrate the superiority of practical solutions over abstract concepts. Each of these works prominently displays the importance of changes leading to freedom. These works demarcate a firm delineation between constructive and destructive change and how it affects human freedom.

About the Author

re: Organizing America: We are what we think - both individually, and as a society. Unfortunately, many of the solutions offered to today's problems are mere panaceas that are not the result of serious deliberation. Through a variety of resources, re: Organizing America seeks to engage people in serious thought about the foundations of freedom and American culture. On this basis, it will become evident that an ordered liberty is the true solution to the majority of our contemporary challenges and allow for a dialogue offering real solutions for today's problems. Our editions are lightly edited, but unabridged, in order to make these ideas accessible to the widest possible audience.