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Rousseau's thought has been seen by some scholars as contradictory and inconsistent, and as not addressing the fundamental contradiction between individual freedom and subordination to the needs of [[society]], "the tension that seems to exist between liberalism and communitarianism".< As one [[Catholic]] scholar argues, "that it [The Social Contract] contains serious contradictions is undeniable...its fundamental principles--the origin of society, absolute freedom and absolute equality of all--are false and unnatural."[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04335a.htm The Social Contract] at the Catholic Encyclopedia. The ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' further argues that Rousseau's concept of the general will would inevitably lead to "the suppression of personality, the reign of force and caprice, the tyranny of the multitude, the despotism of the crowd", i.e. the subordination of the individual to society as a whole.

Rousseau's thought has been seen by some scholars as contradictory and inconsistent, and as not addressing the fundamental contradiction between individual freedom and subordination to the needs of [[society]], "the tension that seems to exist between liberalism and communitarianism".< As one [[Catholic]] scholar argues, "that it [The Social Contract] contains serious contradictions is undeniable...its fundamental principles--the origin of society, absolute freedom and absolute equality of all--are false and unnatural."[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04335a.htm The Social Contract] at the Catholic Encyclopedia. The ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' further argues that Rousseau's concept of the general will would inevitably lead to "the suppression of personality, the reign of force and caprice, the tyranny of the multitude, the despotism of the crowd", i.e. the subordination of the individual to society as a whole.

===John Stuart Mill===

===John Stuart Mill===