Penguin Classics A Discourse on Inequality, (Paperback)

from stillatim

I'm occasionally struck by how bad the great classics of political philosophy are. Consider that, when teaching philosophy, we spend an awful lot of energy convincing students that their arguments ...

from Ramirez

Rousseau is a strange philosopher. Some of his idea are dangerous, too. For example, his theory of social contract doesn't provide any limitation to the power of the 'General Will': the opposite of...

from HistReader

I have read that Rousseau's writings provided a basis for Karl Marx's beliefs; it is obviously true after reading Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Although this text is heavily in the camp of...

from Ramirez

Rousseau is a strange philosopher. Some of his idea are dangerous, too. For example, his theory of social contract doesn't provide any limitation to the power of the 'General Will': the opposite of...

from sbloom42

Very well reasoned and well argued, but coming from a 21st century perspective, I found it difficult to overlook Rousseau's lack of scientific rigor when he assumes contain key facts about the evol...