![]() ![]() Throughout, translation and editorial notes clarify ideas and terms that might not be immediately familiar to most readers.". Scott's extensive introduction enhances our understanding of these foundational writings, providing background information, social and historical context, and guidance for interpreting the works. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of political organization. The two Discourses show Rousseau developing his well-known conception of the natural goodness of man and the problems posed by life in society. Scott of three of Rousseau's works: the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social Contract. The book brings together superb new translations by renowned Rousseau scholar John T. This new edition of his major political writings, published in the year of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth, renews attention to the perennial importance of Rousseau's work. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. ![]()
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