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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse On Origins Of Inequality

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Discourse On Origins Of Inequality

Introduction:

This work was written in 1753 and was first published in 1755. Like the
first Discourse, it was written in competition for the annual prize awarded by
the Academy at Dijon. Unlike the first one, however, it took no prize. The
spirit and attitude of this essay were much like the first one: it condemned
contemporary social and political institutions as corrupters of natural man;
it still talked in terms of a state of nature; it advocated the superiority of
natural morality over civil morality. In all, ...

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