Czy społeczeństwa śnią o sprawiedliwym pastwisku? Interpretacja "Umowy społecznej" Jana Jakuba Rousseau

Abstract

In this paper I present an interpretation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's “Social Contract” as a normative theory of rational thinking of a political community. Using the understanding of Rousseau, suggested many times in the literature, as a theorist of group intentionality, I present the interpretation of the concept of “general will” as the intention of a group subject, which is a political community. Then I explain Rousseau’s normative remarks on democratic procedures through the prism of decision theory, in particular the relationship between the concept of general will and some concepts in game theory as well as Marquis de Condorcet’s “Jury Theorem”. I will show that the vision of fair democratic procedures proposed by Rousseau adequately reflects the conclusions drawn from the adduced theorems.