 There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will ; the latter considers only the common interest, while the former takes private interest into account, and is no more than a sum of particular wills...  The Social Contract: & Discourses - Page 25by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1920 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bernard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1895 - 360 pages
...taken many in the past. XVIII THE REALITY OF THE GENERAL WILL By B. BOSANQUET "There is often a great difference between the will of all and the general will ; the latter looks only to the common interest ; the former looks to private interest, and is nothing but a sum... | |
 | William Prall - Church and state - 1900 - 282 pages
...or something less than the sum of the wills of the majority. And this Rousseau himself recognized. " There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will. The last has regard only for the common interest ; the other for private interest, and is only the sum... | |
 | Political science - 1901 - 344 pages
...are never corrupted, though often deceived, and it is only then that they seem to will what is evil. There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter regards only the common interest, while the former has regard to private interests, and is merely a... | |
 | Utopias - 1901 - 352 pages
...never corrupted, though often deceived— and it is only then that they seem to will what is evil. I There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter regards only the common interest, while the former has regard to private interests, and is merely a... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 pages
...are never corrupted, though often deceived, and it is only then that they seem to will what is evil. There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter regards only the common interest, while the former has regard to private interests, and is merely a... | |
 | James Treat Carter - Corporations - 1919 - 298 pages
...IIl, in which Rousseau discusses the nature of the General Will as follows: "There is often a great difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter looks only to the common interest; the former looks to private interest, and is nothing but the sum... | |
 | William McDougall - Ethnopsychology - 1920 - 334 pages
...WILL OF THE NATION1 ROUSSEAU, in his famous treatise, Le Contrat Social, wrote "There is often a great difference between the will of all and the general will ; the latter looks only to the common interest; the former looks to private interest, and is nothing but a sum of... | |
 | Randolph Greenfield Adams - Great Britain - 1922 - 234 pages
...general will," 37 was a thing which Rousseau would have us differentiate from the "will of all." 88 "There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter regards only common interest, while the former has regard for private interests, and is merely the... | |
 | William Anderson - Municipal government - 1925 - 700 pages
...advantage; but it does not follow that the deliberations of the people are always equally correct. . . . There is often a great deal of difference between...while the former takes private interest into account." he will vote for it; if he thinks it will harm him he will vote " no," without regard to any fine-spun... | |
 | Philosophy - 1928 - 364 pages
...these are not to be identified. "The general will is rarely the will of all" (V., I, 462). And again : "There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will" (V., II, 42). Unfortunately Rousseau is not particularly clear or consistent in his development of... | |
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