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- What is the general will and what does it aim at?
- In Rousseau’s ideal state, who is the sovereign?
- What type of government would Rousseau count the United States and the United Kingdom’s governments as?
- Thomas Paine played a great role in what two revolutions?
- What was the long pamphlet that Paine first achieved fame with?
- What were the first two parts of Rights of Man a response to?
- What is Division on Labor?
- What was Marx and Engels' idea on historical materialism?
Discussion Questions:
- Do you agree with Rousseau that it is not paradoxical to achieve civil freedom by means of force?
- Do you think the American Revolution would have turned out the same if Paine hadn’t published Common Sense?
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