In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau’s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.

SKU	897631
Autor	ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES
Editora	PENGUIN CLASSICS
ISBN	9780140444391
EAN	9780140444391
Categoria	Ciências Humanas e Sociais
Assunto	Ciências Políticas
Páginas	192
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Ano da Edição	2003
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