Though he did not win the Academy's prize a second time, the Second Discourse is a far more accomplished work, and in it Rousseau begins to develop his theories of human social development and moral psychology.
The next year he published Thoughts on Probability and a translation of Rousseau's second discourse On the Origins of Inequality.
In reviewing the arguments and legitimacy of the push for private sector involvement in China's urban water governance, there is a strong relation to the second discourse on efficiency, capital investments and service coverage, while ideas of state-failure and political modernization incidentally emerge.
In the second discourse "from illness to healthy living", CAM is drawn into a broad notion of healthy living that encompasses almost every aspect of daily life [ 27].
Those passages in his second Discourse excited later revolutionaries such as Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilich Lenin, but Rousseau himself did not think that the past could be undone in any way.
In the Second Discourse, Rousseau talks of the amour-propre that corrupts the self in civil society — the tendency we have to look around us and measure our worth competitively against that of others.
In the dedication Rousseau wrote for the second Discourse, in order to present it to the republic of Geneva, he nevertheless praised that city-state for having achieved the ideal balance between "the equality which nature established among men and the inequality which they have instituted among themselves".
And having written the second Discourse to explain how people had lost their liberty in the past, he went on to write another book, Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract), to suggest how they might recover their liberty in the future.
With the Second Discourse, the distance between Rousseau and the Encyclopédiste mainstream of the French Enlightenment thought became clear.
In Part I of the Second Discourse, Rousseau's focus is slightly different and occurs in the context of a polemic against philosophers (such as natural law theorists like Condillac) who attribute to primitive human beings a developed capacity for abstract reasoning.
