RousseauIn all the different manifestations of the “general will”, it is this which governs and preserves a society. Perhaps one of the problems is that people are simply unable to say what they actually want or what they should want, despite Rousseau's distinctions between private and public will. Any group of people in its natural state, before the organization of society, will find itself caught in disagreements between the general will and the private will. No agreement seems to exist between the two in a “state of nature”. However, in the state of social order, the private will and the general will will seem to collide, and I say they even become one another, leaving us with no concern that our private will is to be ignored . The formation of the social contract is precisely and the totality of what you need to have a general will; this leads to some sort of agreement. When we enter into this contract, we have forgiven the right to disagree. with a law that has been passed, I do not deny the existence of a disagreement within the contract; whatever it may be, the disagreement is only a private will, which has no weight in political society. mine prevails, it simply proves that I was wrong, and what I took to be the general will was not” (p. 82). This essentially takes away the power of any vote or opinion, unless it is a vote for it. the majority. Without agreement between private will and public will, there can be no general will. That...