ISBN 9780140444391 | 0140444394 Textbooks - "A Discourse on Inequality Penguin Classics" by JeanJacques Rousseau Maurice Cranston MAURICE Rousseau JeanJacques JeanJacques Cranston

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Maurice Cranston - MAURICE - Rousseau - Jean-Jacques - Jean-Jacque…
ISBN 10: 0140444394
ISBN 13: 9780140444391
Edition: Reprint
Release: February 5, 1985
Format: Paperback (192 pages)
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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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A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)