Sentence examples for the first discourse from inspiring English sources

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).

Rousseau entered his Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (conventionally known as the First Discourse) in the competition and won first prize with his contrarian thesis that social development, including of the arts and sciences, is corrosive of both civic virtue and individual moral character.

The first discourse refers to joint commissioning in the context of prevention and early intervention.

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.

These aspects are also discussed by the second and the third discourse coalition.

The third discourse coalition can only gradually be distinguished from the second one.