A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Saturday, October 31 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Donald A. Cress: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Shelfari’s request to change the contributors of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Donald A. Cress: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Friday, October 9 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Donald A. Cress: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Added a contributor: Donald A. Cress: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to combine 5 books, including A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Wednesday, October 7 2009.

Timothy Gray changed the title of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Wednesday, October 7 2009.

Daniel Z submitted a request to combine 5 books, including A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Monday, October 5 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• In "A Discourse on Inequality", Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau's political and social arguments in the "Discourse" were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jean Jacques Rousseau: (Primary Author)