RUSOOVO SHVATANJE „OPŠTE VOLJE“ I SAVREMENA STANOVIŠTA O PRIRODI DEMOKRATIJE
ROUSSEAU'S IDEA OF THE GENERAL WILL AND CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF DEMOCRACY

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the sense in which contemporary understanding of democracy is present in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The author claims that difficulties in understanding the concept of general will comes from the fact that Rousseau runs two ideas of democracy together: the idea which values democracy in positive terms because it instantiates fundamental human values such as freedom and rights, as well as the idea that democracy is important because it enlarges our collective wisdom. The end of the paper traces the way with respect to a possible coherent interpretation of the relationship between democracy and the content of the general will in Rousseau’s work.

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