What right have you to demand payment of us?: poverty and inequality in Rousseau's Second discourse
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v24i1p115-132Keywords:
Inequality, Domination, Poverty, NeuhouserAbstract
The purpose of this work is to bring poverty to the center of the debate that Rousseau particularly engages in the Second Discourse. Although the central issue there is the origin of the inequality, it is remarkable the role that poverty has as one of its constituent sides. Thus, the path will be covered in three steps so that the first deals to rebuild Rousseau way highlighting the aspects that form the core of the argument on the origin of inequality; the second one presents the prejudice-privilege binomial as a central element to understand the contours of inequality taken from the division between rich and poor, and finally, the third step aims to point out the difficulties present in the way in which Neuhouser interprets poverty and origin of domination in the Second Discourse.
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