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Rousseau: The Discourses

How did inequality begin? Rousseau tells a story of people in a state of nature and the first fence.

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Volume
35 of the 1990 set
Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Work
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and A Discourse on Political Economy 1755

Ideas: Equality What a human being is How societies work

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This is one of the top rungs of The Enlightenment.

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