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A Discourse on Inequality

Paperback • 1985 • English

A Discourse on Inequality

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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 imba...Show more

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9780140444391

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1985

Language

English

Original title

A Discourse on Inequality

Format

Paperback

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