General Will before Rousseau

Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly"e; that some men be damned? The theological origin of the "e;general will"e; was important to Rousseau himself. He uses the langu...