Who has given you the right to sacrifice me?! about the supposed paradox between the right to life and death in Jean-Jacques Rousseau´s thought

Authors

  • Camilo Andrés Soto Suárez

Keywords:

general will, right to life and death, State, roussonian defense

Abstract

On the Rousseau´s manuscripts A discourse on political economy and The social contract, apparently Rousseau incurs in a paradox about the “right to life and death” of the citizens. While at the first work Rousseau criticizes the arbitrary political power that abuse of the rights of individuals, on the second one defend such practices, even stating that its members would have to sacrifice in order to maintain the power of State. This article tries to question this paradox claiming, firstly, that Rousseau would not commit any argumental incoherence as long as his positions would respond to a change of view in both works; secondly, Rousseau would propose implicitly a defense of the “right to life and death”, under the figure of the citizen invested in the collective self of the general will, positioning him as a defender of such right although through other arguments.

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Author Biography

Camilo Andrés Soto Suárez

Currently: Master's degree student in Political Theory and Democratic Culture 

Complutense University of Madrid (España)

Bacherlor's degree in History 

University Diego Portales (Chile) 

Published

2021-11-18

How to Cite

Soto Suárez, C. A. . (2021). Who has given you the right to sacrifice me?! about the supposed paradox between the right to life and death in Jean-Jacques Rousseau´s thought . Versiones. Philosophy’s Journal, (16), 91–113. Retrieved from https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/versiones/article/view/348155