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    It is not the case that There is a tension in Rousseau's Social Contract between two accounts of how the general will emerges.

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    • 1.Rousseau's two accounts are complementary stages in a single developmental theory, not rival explanations of the same phenomenon.
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    • 2.In Émile and the Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau treats civic virtue as the cultivated precondition that makes procedural deliberation reliably track the common good.
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    • 3.A theory that identifies necessary preconditions alongside structural procedures is architecturally coherent, not tensioned.
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    • 1.Cohen (1986) and Estlund argue that Rousseau's proceduralism is itself virtue-dependent, making the two accounts analytically inseparable rather than competing.
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    • 2.If the constraints of generality already presuppose citizens abstracting from particular interests, then virtue just is the internalized disposition to satisfy those procedural constraints.
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    • 3.What appears as tension dissolves once we recognize that Rousseau distinguishes the genetic origin of the general will from its ongoing epistemic reliability conditions.
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    • 1.One account holds that the general will emerges procedurally from individuals contemplating self-interest under constraints of generality, universality, and propitious sociological conditions.
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    • 2.Another account holds that mere contemplation of self-interest is inadequate to generate a general will and that citizen virtue is necessary.
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