Sentence examples for first discourse from inspiring English sources

The argument follows on that of his first Discourse by developing the proposition that people are naturally good and then tracing the successive stages by which they have descended from primitive innocence to corrupt sophistication.

Even so, for several years after the publication of his first Discourse, he remained a close collaborator in Diderot's essentially progressive enterprise, the Encyclopédie, and an active contributor to its pages.

The First Discourse made Rousseau famous and provoked a series of responses to which he in turn replied.

Cordemoy concludes the First Discourse with a discussion of three inconveniens, problems with which Descartes' plenum theory must deal but which Cordemoy's atomism escapes.

This interpretation is also implied by the first discourse coalition which tries to link "fracking" to the relatively positive image of gas.

The First Discourse of the Discernement opens with five claims about bodies which lay the ground for Cordemoy's physics (which he goes on to discuss in Discourses Two and Three).

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.

He ended his news conference after his 900th win on Monday with an 85-second discourse on gun control, knowing that his platform would help give the issue a higher profile.

Rousseau had by that time completed a second Discourse in response to a question set by the Academy of Dijon: "What is the origin of the inequality among men and is it justified by natural law?" In response to that challenge he produced a masterpiece of speculative anthropology.

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".