Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Rousseau, Jean-JacquesFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-04
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, theDiscoursepresents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. The author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment.
Table of Contents
| Oxford World's Classics | p. ii |
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Note On The Text | p. xxxi |
| Select Bibliography | p. xxxii |
| A Chronology og Jean-Jacques Rousseau | p. xxxiv |
| To the Republic of Geneva Magnificent, Most Honoured, and Sovereign Lords:* | p. 3 |
| Preface | p. 14 |
| Remark About The Notes | p. 20 |
| Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men | p. 23 |
| p. 26 | |
| Notes | p. 55 |
| p. 86 | |
| Explanatory Notes | p. 121 |
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