Also published as: Discourse on Inequality

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Year: 1755 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Philosophy, Non Fiction, Politics Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Barns&Noble Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140444391 0140444394

A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history'€™s greatest minds The first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society'€”and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of inequality. One of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, Rousseau based his work in compassion for his fellow man. The great crime of despotism, he believed, was the raising of the cruel above the weak. In this landmark text, he spells out the antidote for man'€™s ills: a compassionate revolution to pull up the fences and restore the balance of mankind. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. Similar books: Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Democracy and Education by John Dewey Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill Letters on England by Voltaire The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek On the Good Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand Justice by Michael J. Sandel