A review by s_books
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3.0

Rousseau chronicles the history of mankind from its savage beginnings to its somewhat less savage ideal epoch to its contemporary civilized-yet-miserable societies. While definitely more believable and less wacko than Vico's New Science, slightly more flawed when compared with Kant's Idea of a Universal History. But still a good theory of how mankind came to have inequality (which, at least according to Rousseau, is not its natural state).