Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Masters, Roger D.; Kelly, ChristopherFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-01-01
Publisher(s): Dartmouth College
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Summary
Includes the Second Discourse (complete with the author's extensive notes), contemporary critiques by Voltaire, Diderot, Bonnet, and LeRoy, Rousseau's replies (some never before translated), and Political Economy, which first outlined principles that were to become famous in the Social Contract. This is the first time that the works of 1755 and 1756 have been combined with careful commentary to show the coherence of Rousseau's "political system." The Second Discourse examines man in the true "state of nature," prior to the formation of the first human societies, tracing the "hypothetical history" of political society and social inequality as they developed out of natural equality and independence.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Chronology of Works in Volume 3 | |
| Introduction | |
| Note on the Text | |
| Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (Second Discourse) | p. 1 |
| Three Fragments from Early Versions of the Discourse on Inequality | p. 96 |
| Letter from Voltaire to Rousseau (August 30, 1755) | p. 102 |
| Letter from Rousseau to Voltaire (September 10, 1755) | p. 105 |
| Letter from Rousseau to Voltaire (August 18, 1756) | p. 108 |
| Letter from Voltaire to Rousseau (September 12, 1756) | p. 122 |
| Letter from Mr. Philopolis | p. 123 |
| Letter from Rousseau to Mr. Philopolis | p. 127 |
| Observations of Charles-Georges LeRoy, with Rousseau's Replies | p. 133 |
| National Right, by Denis Diderot (Encyclopedia, Vol. V) | p. 135 |
| Discourse on Political Economy (Encyclopedia, Vol. V) | p. 140 |
| Notes | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 207 |
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