Table of Contents

Introduction
1: A Free Community of Equals?
2: The Society of the General Will
3: Reflections on the General Will's Sovereignty
4: The Natural Goodness of Humanity
5: Democracy

About the Author

Joshua Cohen taught political philosophy at MIT from 1977-2006, and now teaches at Stanford in political science, philosophy, and law, where he is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society.