A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, the Discourse
presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. In his sweeping account of social and political development, the author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
offers both a thought-provoking account of society's origins and a keen criticism of unequal political institutions.
Reprint of A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, as published in French and English Philosophers, P. F. Collier & Son, New York, 1910.
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