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 suppl
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, AND IS IT AUTHORISED BY NATURAL LAW? We should consider what is natural not in things depraved but in those which are rightly ordered according to nature. Aristotle, Politics, …
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