Leilani Merrill
04/16/21
Jean Jacques Rousseau
June 28 1712-July 2nd 1778
ROUSSEAU: A DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY
The general human condition
How did we get here
Does it have a necessary basis State of civilization
Gradual continuing process.
Happy in the state of nature
In modern times they’re new developments with techniques, technology that
transform our environment.
Difficulties were presented to man in this state, which forced him to learn how to surmount these difficulties; and thus man developed his reasoning faculty
The first advances of man enabled the production of new advances with ever more rapidity.
Shelters were designed. The family and a rudimentary form of property was established.
*The happiest stage of human development is when man was in between the indolence of their natural state and the egoism of our modern age. *
Indolence- Avoidance of activity or exertion.
Egoism- A doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action.
Metallurgy and agriculture were the catalysts to this before significant change in man’s mode of living.
Divisions of labor were introduced as some men were required to create metals, and others to provide sustenance for them in exchange for their commodities.
Thus conceptions of justice and law were established to regulate the possession of property.
Difficulties were presented to man in this state, which forced him to learn how to surmount these difficulties; and thus man developed his reasoning faculty.
The first advances of man enabled the production of new advances with ever more rapidity.
In human nature, what happens for humans to have developed?
With civilization, we become more and more civilized, gradual continuing process.
There is a decline from the original position in the state of nature, where we may have been happier.
People transform their environment, produce a society, developed into a complicated progressive human being.
In Rosssseau’s Discourse on Inequality, he dives into the concept to discover the origins
Physical inequality has progressed through technology and culture.
People transform their environment, produce a society, developed into a complicated progressive human being.
In Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, he dives into the concept to discover the origins.
With respect to the inequality, does it dig deeper into opportunity, such as education.
Natural Man is the gentlest creature; for he is compelled only to preserve himself against harm, and restrained form hating others by his natural instincts for compassion.. .
Sources:
Philosophy Forever 