Back الإرادة العامة Arabic সাধারণ ইচ্ছা Bengali/Bangla Voluntat general Catalan Volonté générale German Voluntad general Spanish اراده همگانی Persian Volonté générale French הרצון הכללי HE Volontà generale Italian 一般意志 Japanese
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In political philosophy, the general will (French: volonté générale) is the will of the people as a whole. The term was made famous by 18th-century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It can be considered as an early, informal predecessor to the idea of a social welfare function in social choice theory.