A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140444394 ISBN 13: 9780140444391

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot's Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140444394
• ISBN 13: 9780140444391
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Cranston Maurice
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