Introduction: the life and thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Rousseau's beginnings: the road to the second discourse ; The origins of political authority ; Rousseau's bombshell: the discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men ; Rousseau's later life and legacy -- Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citizen of Geneva -- Politics drawn from the very words of holy scripture, 1709 / Jacques-Benigne Bossuet -- Leviathan, 1651 / Thomas Hobbes -- On the duty of man and citizen according to natural law, 1673 / Samuel von Pufendorf -- Two treatise of government, 1690 / John Locke -- Discourse on the nature of animals, 1753 / George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon -- Of the social contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Eulogies to Rousseau, 1790s / Maximilien Robespierre -- The principles of politics, 1810 / Benjamin Constant

1. Equality
2. Natural law
3. Political science