Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Dover Thrift Edition) - Softcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
9780486434148: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Dover Thrift Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486434141 ISBN 13: 9780486434148
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Inhaltsangabe

If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry into much-explored issues of 18th-century (and subsequent) philosophy: human nature and the best form of government.
Rousseau takes an innovative approach by introducing a "hypothetical history" that presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. In his sweeping account of humanity's social and political development, the author develops a theory of human evolution that prefigures Darwinian thought and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. He concludes that people are inevitably corrupt as a result of both natural (or physical) inequalities and moral (or political) inequalities.
One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

offers a thought-provoking account of society's origins and a keen criticism of unequal modern political institutions.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486434141
ISBN 13 
9780486434148
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
52
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