Jean Jacques Rousseau · Politics

This Is Mine

Rousseau’s account of how humanity fell - from free and equal in nature to chained by property, vanity, and the rule of the rich.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Rousseau traces inequality to the rise of property. Reconstruct the steps from natural equality to entrenched inequality, in your own words.

Leads to Karl Marx.

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