Transcription of Discourse on Inequality
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Discourse on InequalityJean Jacques RousseauTable of ContentsDiscourse on Jacques TO THE REPUBLIC OF DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN AND FOUNDATION OF THE Inequality OF FIRST SECOND on InequalityiDiscourse on InequalityJean Jacques RousseauTranslated by G. D. H. ColeA DISCOURSEON A SUBJECT PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON:WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF Inequality AMONG MEN, AND IS IT AUTHORISED BY NATURAL LAW?We should consider what is natural not in thingsdepraved but in those which are rightly orderedaccording to nature. Aristotle, Politics, Bk. i, ch. 5 DEDICATION TO THE REPUBLIC OF GENEVAMOST HONOURABLE, MAGNIFICENT AND SOVEREIGN LORDS, convinced that only a virtuous citizencan confer on his country honours which it can accept, I have been for thirty years past working to make myselfworthy to offer you some public homage; and, this fortunate opportunity supplementing in some degree theinsufficiency of my efforts, I have thought myself entitled to follow in embracing it the dictates of the zeal whichinspires me, rather than the right which should have been my authorisation.
Discourse on Inequality Jean Jacques Rousseau Translated by G. D. H. Cole A DISCOURSE ON A SUBJECT PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON: WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY AMONG MEN,
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