A Discourse on Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0140444394

ISBN-13 9780140444391

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 25th, 1984

Print length 192 Pages

Weight 148 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.90 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy Political science & theory

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Demonstrates how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege.

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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