Publication
1754
This 1754 essay, written in response to concepts of the "natural man" developed by philosopher Thomas Hobbes, explores ideas, radical at the time and still considered such today. Was man better off before he invented "civil society"? From where does social inequality spring? Did the development of agriculture and technology doom most of humanity to an everlasting enslavement to the tiny minority of the wealthy and the strong?
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Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Series | Classics in IR and Security |
Copyright | Translated by GDH Cole |