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Jean-Jacques Rousseau›Discourse on the Origin of Inequality›Full Text

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1755

2 chapters · 84 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Part I — Natural Man and the State of Nature

~97 min · 47 pages

Part II — The Origins of Inequality

~78 min · 37 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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