Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s’avisa de dire: Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile.
The first person, who, having enclosed a plot 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.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Prof. Parker Shipton will be lecturing on “Origins of Inequality & The Social Contract” for the students of CC203 this afternoon.
(Students, click here to view his handout from that lecture.)
