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"Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts", "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality", "Discourse on Political Economy", "On the Social Contract"

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. Cress (Translated by)

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Paperback, 227 pages

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United States, 01 January 1987

'The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory...' - Raymon M Lemos, "Teaching Philosophy".

CONTENTS: Note on the Translation; Introduction; Bibliography; Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Rousseau's Notes to Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; On the Social Contract: Book 1 to 4.

Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
ISBN:	0872200477
EAN:	9780872200470
Dimensions:	14.0 x 21.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.36 kg)
Age Range:	15+ years

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4 of 5 Stars! – Customer review on 14/12/2008

The first is a prize-winning (1749) essay in which he argued that the arts and sciences merely corrupted the natural goodness of man. In the Contract his opening sentence "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains" and asks what gives the state the right to wield power over its members. Emile is a novel in which he gives views on education. (I don't like Rousseau. His mistress, with whom he lived for 25 years, bore him 5 children, each of whom he deposited on the steps of a foundling hospital).

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