 | Dudley Knowles - Philosophy - 2002 - 404 pages
...Inequality he is clear that it was the direst of human inventions. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This...real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling... | |
 | Ralph Blumenau - Philosophers - 2002 - 644 pages
...ends with a "fatal accident": the claim to individual property. "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This...him, was the real founder of civil society." From that moment on wards the decline into "civilization" was both ineviseau and the philosophes. The break... | |
 | Mr.Sanjeev Gupta, Mr.George T. Abed - Social Science - 2002 - 580 pages
...ch. 8) quotes Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying: 'This...believe him. was the real founder of civil society." constitutions; and "non-constitutional politics," which analyses social interactions guided solely... | |
 | Lynda Lange - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 430 pages
...sentence of part II of the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality "The first man who. h,tvmg enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This...believe him, was the real founder of civil society" (761. 15. Rousseau says that "the first step towards inequality, and at the same time, towards vice"... | |
 | Sandie Eleanor Holguin - National characteristics, Spanish - 2002 - 292 pages
...community. Like Rousseau, who wrote, "The first person who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society,"30 anarchists believed that all of the evils of society could be traced... | |
 | Bert N. Adams, R A Sydie - Social Science - 2002 - 390 pages
...Rousseau t1762a:202), The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders . . . would that man... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...One object of such hatred is the metonymic "first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him[, who] was the real founder of civil society."85 The shade's apparent eyelessness (11. 187-88) and putative... | |
 | Tatha Wiley - Religion - 2002 - 292 pages
...the life of nature: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. The human race would have been spared endless crimes, wars, murders,... | |
 | David Bollier - Business & Economics - 2002 - 280 pages
...Commons of Nature The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 1 755... | |
 | Thadious M. Davis - Law - 2003 - 356 pages
...philosophy on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality: "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This...real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling... | |
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THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. 
