difficulty in " The Social Contract"

Saturday 10^th October 10, 2015

Difficulty in “the social contract”

That is a picture taken from a normal croissant shop in mazraa’ street. On the face of the shop, the owner wrote “please do not talk about politics”. Well considering the circumstances, he is 100% right. Lebanon is passing by a hard time with all of those problems concerning secularism. But the thing is, when people stop talking about politics the younger generation grew to the fact that politics is a bad thing. So today we are scared of the word itself. Therefore I say since we are citizens we have the right to talk about the situation of the country to find solutions, moreover we should talk about it.

In the same concept Jean-Jacque said “As I was born a citizen of a free state, and am a member of its sovereign, my right to vote makes it my duty to study public affairs”. Rousseau was fighting against the oppression of the French government. Back then the situation was the same today. He and a couple of other writers called the “philosophe des lumiere” (enlightenment) tried to make an end to the principle of absolute monarchy in France and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.

Work Cited

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “The Social Contract”. Shifting Narratives: A Reader for Academic Writing. Beirut: Educart (Middle East), 2015. 113-115. Print.