Title : Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men - Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book

Summary :

Four years after the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (1750), which made him famous, Rousseau found the opportunity to develop his principles with the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men. In it, he revealed himself to be the spokesperson for the humiliated and the offended, the interpreter of all those whom the social order, in Geneva as in France, condemned to live as strangers. Not only did he address all men, but he was determined to offer them, through his writings, the image of the integral man. He would designate the universal, indicating it both in the order of facts and in that of duty. At the same time, he discovered his grand manner, a haughty eloquence, which placed his stakes at the highest level. Polemic, reasoning, erudition, imagination, all came together in an unequaled intellectual fervor. The Discourse on Inequality incorporates multiple materials, but the work itself is a source work, from which one can begin all modern reflection on the nature of society. The obscure maneuvers of vice nor the modesty of virtue could have escaped the gaze and judgment of the public, and where this sweet habit of seeing and knowing one another made love of the fatherland the love of citizens rather than that of the land.

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