What Is Property? · Character
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher whose social contract theory is critiqued.
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Also known as Jean Jacques, bonhomme Jacques, Rousseau, J. J. Rousseau, Even J. J. Rousseau—confounding
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Jean Jacques Rousseau shows up with force in III. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Quoted for his critique of the rich claiming property through labor.
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- III
- § 2: Universal Consent No Justification of Property
- § 7: That Inequality of Powers Is the Necessary Condition of Equality of Fortunes
- Sixth Proposition
- § 2 Characteristics of Communism and of Property
- Endnotes
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