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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse On Political Economy

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

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Discourse On Political Economy

Introduction:

This essay was first published in the Encyclopedia of Diderot in 1755.
Whether or not it was written before the Discourse On Inequality is subject to
some controversy. The fact that it is the first essay to contain many positive
political speculations about civil society rather than positing the
superiority of a state of nature as in the previous Discourses, has led some
authorities to see it as a prelude to the Social Contract. This, however, is
not certain. Its most notable quality is the idea of the ...

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