Rousseau's Second Discourse on Inequality (Summary & Analysis)
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In this episode of the Philosophy Hour at Literary Tales we examine the Second Discourse of Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau and his story about how mankind fell into slavery through civil society and how only force can restore the original freedom and equality we had in the state of nature.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).

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