That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

His works on ascetism, include the aforementioned Life of St. Anthony, as well as a Discourse on Virginity, a short work on Love and Self-Control, and a treatise On Sickness and Health which is only preserved in fragments.

Descartes's original statement was "", from his Discourse on Method ( 1637 ).

Among these were: Commentaries on the Old Testament, Thesaurus, Discourse Against Arians Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and Dialogues on the Trinity.

:* – Discourse on Defilement

Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).

* 1955 Colette ( Discourse on the reception at the Royal Academy of Belgium ) – Discourse on the reception at the Académie française

His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.

Rousseau's 1750 " Discourse on the Arts and Sciences " was awarded the first prize and gained him significant fame.

In 1755, Rousseau completed his second major work, the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( the Discourse on Inequality ), which elaborated on the arguments of the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work, the article Economie Politique ( Discourse on Political Economy ), featured in Diderot's Encyclopédie.

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

* Discourse on Political Economy, 1755

* Discourse on Political Economy English translation

Calhoun And Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse.

** The organization Citizens for Civil Discourse has lobbied Congress to close this loophole by developing a National Political Do Not Call Registry where voters can register their phone numbers and ask politicians to take the " Do Not Contact Pledge ".

In A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ( 1859 ), Marx referred to A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance of Political Economy ( 1825 ), by John Ramsay McCulloch, who said that " In its natural state, matter.

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain ( Cambridge: 1993 ), 139-163 ; 0-521-39242-X.

# Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality ; On Political Economy ; Emile ; The Social Contract ; Confessions

* " Agonistic Democracy and the Narrative of Distempered Elites: an Analysis of Citizen Discourse on Political Message Forums ", by Jeanette Castillo, August 12, 2008-doctoral dissertation analyzing Democratic Underground ( pdf )

Women's Political Discourse: A 21st-century Perspective.

* David Howarth, Aletta Norval and Yannis Stavrakakis ( eds ) Discourse Theory and Political Analysis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

Some of his later writings, such as his Discourse on Political Economy, his proposals for a Constitution of Poland, and his essay on maintaining perpetual peace, in which he recommends a federated European Union, gave an idea of the future direction of his thought.

*( Co-editor and contributor ), Political Discourse in Early-modern Britain ( Cambridge University Press, 1993 )

** A Discourse on Political Economy

* A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy, 1824.

Treason, Tradition and the Intellectual: Julien Benda and Political Discourse.

The Conversationalisation of Political Discourse: A Comparative View.

Pierpont's many published sermons include, among others, The Burning of the Ephesian Letters ( 1833 ), Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice ( 1834 ), New Heavens and a New Earth ( 1837 ), Moral Rule of Political Action ( 1839 ), National Humiliation ( 1840 ), and A Discourse on the Covenant with Judas ( 1842 ).

Calhoun And Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse.

The Language of Liberty 1660 – 1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World, 1660 – 1832

Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right ( Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique ) ( 1762 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

How, for example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame??

In Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Rousseau argues that the arts and sciences have not been beneficial to humankind, because they arose not from authentic human needs but rather as a result of pride and vanity.

In this essay, which elaborates on the ideas introduced in the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Rousseau traces man's social evolution from a primitive state of nature to modern society.

At the end of the Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau explains how the desire to have value in the eyes of others comes to undermine personal integrity and authenticity in a society marked by interdependence, and hierarchy.

The Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contrasted Sparta favourably with Athens in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, arguing that its austere constitution was preferable to the more cultured nature of Athenian life.

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men ( 1754 ), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant ( bad ), as Hobbes had maintained, but ( like some other animals ) had an " innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer " ( and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue ).

According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

– A. O. Lovejoy, “ The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality ” ( 1923 ).

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Rousseau, anticipating the language of Darwin, states that as the animal-like human species increased there arose a " formidable struggle for existence " between it and other species for food.

“ The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality, ” Modern Philology Vol.

Rousseau is notable as the philosopher who first proposed, in his second Discourse, that reason ( along with political life ) is not natural to mankind, and not even good for mankind.

Rousseau in his Second Discourse finally took the shocking step of claiming that this traditional account has things in reverse: with reason, language and rationally organized communities all having developed over a long period of time merely as a result of the fact that some habits of cooperation were found to solve certain types of problems, and that once such cooperation became more important, it forced people to develop increasingly complex cooperation — often only to defend themselves from each other.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly praised the simple life in many of his writings, especially in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ) and Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

* Discourse on Inequality by Rousseau

The Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contrasted Sparta favourably with Athens in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, arguing that its austere constitution was preferable to the more cultured nature of Athenian life.