Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage vs Civil Men In Rousseau’s novel, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, he discusses the life of the savage man in the first part and then in the second part he talks about how the civil man came to be. “I conceive of two kinds of inequality in the human species: one which I call natural or physical, because it is established by nature and consists in the difference of age, health, bodily strength, and qualities of mind or soul. The other may be called moral or political inequality, because it depends on a kind of convention and is established, or at least authorized, by the consent of men” (Rousseau 16). The author is more partial to surviving like the savage man but I believe that we would all be better off existing like the civil man. The civil man brought about m....

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