A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's entry for a prize offered by the Academy of Dijon in 1754 and was published the next year. Its first part imagines man in the state of nature, solitary, healthy, moved by self-preservation and pity, stripped of the qualities philosophers had projected onto him; its second part traces how property, agriculture and metallurgy, the division of labor and the comparison of talents produced dependence, wealth, law and finally despotism, so that inequality men accept as natural is society's work. The dedication to Geneva and the notes are part of the argument. The discourse prepared the ground for The Social Contract and Emile. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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What kind of book is A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind?
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