Rousseau and the Peace

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concept of peace in Rousseau. To achieve this goal, we must bear in mind three important aspects of development: first, the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, based on two central questions of this time: the growth of inequality among human beings and the legitimacy of political absolutism; second, the proposal for European peace put forward by Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s; third, Rousseau’s project for European peace.