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Interest-bound will shaped by membership in a locality, class, or group rather than the common good.
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particular will
Interest-bound will shaped by membership in a locality, class, or group rather than the common good.
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The general will is what people can agree on when reasoning from the common interest, while particular will is interest-bound group preference.
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"...two types of will. There's the general will and there's the particular will. General will is what we can agree on if we are..."
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"...must be based entirely on the general will and negate the particular will, on the common interest. And that's why everything works, because if..."
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"...the citizens communicating with one another, what emerged from all that particular will would always be the general will, and the decision would always..."
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