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"A Discourse on Inequality" .
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Submitted By: Denis Venderov Submitted To: Professor D.S. Hutchinson Co-Instructor: Paul Los T.A. Janette Dinishak Course: PHL 102Y Date Due: February 13, 2003 Position Paper #5 Assigned Reading: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "A Discourse on Inequality" (part II). Corruption among mankind. One of the leading political philosophers of his time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents in his work, "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality", concepts that are original not only in terms of political theory, but economical and social theories as well. Through obtaining a fictitious state of nature, Rousseau's Second Discourse leads to suggestion that man is inevitably corrupt as a result of natural and moral inequalities. "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any...
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