DIANA DĂNIŞOR
Prof. univ. dr., Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea din Craiova;
E-mail: danisordiana@yahoo.ro
Abstract
This great theorist of democracy is a philosopher of exemplary rational rigor. The principles enunciated in his critique of the absolute
monarchy are the basis of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. That is why reading Rousseau is indispensable.
Keywords
law, justice, democracy, social contract, human rights