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Discourse on Inequality & The Social Contract

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Discourse on Inequality & The Social Contract

Including Discourse on the Arts and Sciences & A Discourse on Political Economy

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Year

2018

Language

English

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In "Discourse on Inequality" or "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men" Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction (like a work by Thomas Hobbes, unlike those by John Locke), and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality.
"The Social Contract", originally published as On the Social Contract, or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right.
Contents:
The Social Contract
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
A Discourse on Political Economy

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