The General Will Before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine Into the Civic by Patrick Riley

The General Will Before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine Into the Civic

Patrick Riley

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nonfiction philosophy
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Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why do...

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