Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1754

A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of
The Inequality of Mankind and
is it Authorised by Natural Law?

Source: Translated by G. D. H. Cole, and rendered into HTML by Jon Roland of the Constitution Society.

Introduction

First Part

Second Part

Further Reading:
Rousseau Archive
De Cive, Hobbes | Biography | Hegel on Rousseau | Hegel’s Philosophy of Right | Diderot

Classics in Political Science | Philosophy Archive @ marxists.org