A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

A philosophical discourse, written for the Academy of Dijon, in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau examines the origin of inequality among mankind, distinguishing natural inequality from moral and political inequality and tracing how social development arose.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Philosophy›Early modern philosophy, 1600 to 1780›France and French-speaking Europe

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