O contrato social e o bom ordenamento político em Rousseau

Abstract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau starts the book Social Contract with a question about the possibility of existence and maintaining the legitimate social pact that ensuring the civil freedom of all contractors. Such questioning led to concepts such as sovereignty, legitimacy, society, people, law and government. Our job is to approach these concepts with the aim of pointing out how a philosopher understands the social contract and good political order, specifically addressing the importance of the general will of the sovereign people, as the necessary conditions to maintain civil freedom. Bearing in mind that the philosopher as laws, in his historical trajectory, emerged from the inequality between men and worked more as he enters the weak and benefits the strong, a new process is necessary, this time, legitimate for a political society. Thus, from the basic concepts pointed out by the French thinker, which make it possible to understand a fundamental conceptual structure of the work of the Social Contract and allow us to open a contract with clarity or political thought by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.