...holds out the promise of reconstructing what is destroyed. This is the promise of the Social Contract: He who dares to undertake the making of a people's...complete and solitary whole, into part of a greater whole ... of altering man's constitution for the purpose of strengthening it; and of substituting a partial...

...Inequality" in Essays in the History of Ideas (New York, 1960). 68. In the words of The Social Contract, "He who dares to undertake the making of a people's...which he in a manner receives his life and being." ([London, 19551, P32). Normally, the transformation is understood to be essentially moral, although...

...of hymn to "The Legislator" which he placed at the very heart of The Social Contract, Rousseau says: He who dares to undertake the making of a people's...man's constitution for the purpose of strengthening it.47 As for the law itself, Rousseau, in his Discourse on Political Economy, becomes ecstatic: How...

...good. But where Machiavelli's prince is 'prudent', Rousseau's 'lawgiver' is wise.63 As Rousseau writes: He who dares to undertake the making of a people's institutions ought to feel himself capable of changing human nature, of transforming each individual, who is by himself a complete and solitary...

...instead new ones alien to him" (1973, bk. 1 , chap. 6, p. 194). In this fashion each individual is made "into part of a greater whole from which he in a manner receives his life and being ... [in which] each citizen is nothing and can do nothing without the rest."25 The self as a potentiality,...

...did Spencer. III. "He who dares to undertake the making of a people's institutions," said Rousseau, "ought to feel himself capable, so to speak, of changing human nature. ..." Circumstances toward the end of the eighteenth century presented men of knowledge and power with...

...citation, taken from the famous chapter on "The Legislator." No ordinary legislator is Rousseau's subject. He who dares to undertake the making of a people's...complete and solitary whole, into part of a greater whole ... He must in a word take from man his own resources and give him instead new ones alien to him, and...

..."individual is nothing, the citizen is everything,"1" and that the proper goal of a republican polity is "transforming each individual, who is by himself a...which he in a manner receives his life and being." Each citizen was to become nothing alone and was to be able to "do nothing without the rest."160 It...

...moral personality through allegiance to a higher moral community. As he put it in The Social Contract: He who dares to undertake the making of a people's...himself capable so to speak, of changing human nature. . . . Transforming each individual, who is by himself a complete and solitary whole, into part of a...

...Rousseau, The Social Contract, bk. 2, ch. 7. "One who dares to undertake to found a people should feel capable, so to speak, of changing human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a perfect and solitary whole, into a part of a greater whole from which the individual,...