PSCI 110 Lecture 16: Note 16
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Lecture outline: rousseau, discourse on the origin of inequality, part i. 1750 wins prize from academy of dijon for discourse on the sciences and the arts. 1762 on the social contract and emile published; both are condemned and ordered to. Rousseau"s thought as a response to other thinkers we have read: social contract (hobbes, locke, republicanism (aristotle, machiavelli, critique of inequality. Rousseau"s philosophy of history: critique of progress (in discourse on the sciences and the arts, his method and sources: conjectural history based on historians" & travelers" reports.