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A Discourse on Inequality

Door Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#349479-VF44
Titel
A Discourse on Inequality
Auteur
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
1984
ISBN10
0140444394
ISBN13
9780140444391
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, edited by Maurice Cranston, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Demonstrates how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege.

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
... (Lees verder) a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.
Pagina's
187
Conditie
Goed — Browned.
Prijs
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