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Reading/Discussion Schedule
October 11 -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
October 15 - On the Social
Contract, pp. 139 - 186
October 18 - On
the Social Contract, pp. 186 - 227
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Writing - October 15 Write a one or two pages
explanation/critique of one of the following statements. Use the
quote to address a real problem. Be provocative and creative!
"Man's first language, the most universal, the most
energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to
persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature." (49)
"Such, in fact, is the true cause of all these
differences; the savage lives in himself; the man accustomed to the
ways of society is always outside himself and knows how to live only
in the opinion of others." (80-81) |
Weekly Writing -
October 22 Write a two page essay on:
Why, and Whom, Should I Obey?
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