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.

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.

Already René Descartes in his Discourse on the Method had attested to the impact Renaissance planned new towns had upon his own thought, and much evidence exists that the Renaissance streetscape was also the perceptual stimulus that had led to the development of coordinate geometry ( see, e. g., Claudia Lacour Brodsky, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origins of Modern Philosophy, Duke 1996 ).

* Habermas, Jürgen, " Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique of Phonocentrism ," in Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, trans.

Aryan Origins and Modern Nationalist Discourse

Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ), published in 1755 in Holland.

Society corrupts men only insofar as the Social Contract has not de facto succeeded, as we see in contemporary society as described in the Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

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.

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( Discours sur l ' origine et les fondements de l ' inégalité parmi les hommes ), 1754

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men English translation

" The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau's ' Discourse on Inequality '".

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 ).

" Lovejoy concludes that Rousseau's doctrine, as expressed in his Discourse on Inequality: declares that there is a dual process going on through history ; on the one hand, an indefinte progress in all those powers and achievements which express merely the potency of man's intellect ; on the other hand, an increasing estrangement of men from one another, an intensification of ill-will and mutual fear, cuminating in a monstrous epoch of universal conflict and mutual destruction fourth stage in which we now find ourselves.

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

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 ).

* Discourse on Inequality by Rousseau

* Discourse on Inequality

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

** A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

She has written and edited many books including Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, Gender and Discourse, and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis.

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( Discours sur l ' origine et les fondements de l ' inégalité parmi les hommes ), also commonly known as the " Second Discourse ", is a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

His doctoral thesis, “ An Understanding of the Relationship Among International Legal Discourse About Development, Third World Countries, and International Peace ,” ( 1985 ) explored the global trade law regime from the perspective of the third world.

Among his thirteen works in Arabic and other languages were Imam Shāfi ‘ ī and the Founding of Medieval Ideology and The Critique of Religious Discourse.

He was one of the " character " writers, and in this kind of literature wrote an essay A Brief Discourse concerning the Different Wits of Men ( 1675 ).

Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ), published by Marc-Michel Rey in 1755 in Holland.

In 1710 he wrote his Discourse on the Five Points ( on the Five Points of Calvinism ) which eventually drew Calvinist responses from English Baptist John Gill in his The Cause of God and Truth ( 1735 ) and American Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards in his Freedom of the Will ( 1754 ).

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 ).

* Barnard, Henry ( 1852 ), " Tribute to Gallaudet — A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character and Services, of the Rev.

But the most noticeable of his productions is A Discourse of Wit ( 1685 ), which contains some of the most characteristic metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of common sense.

It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.

* a treatise against Hierocles ( a Roman governor ), in which Eusebius combated the former's glorification of Apollonius of Tyana in a work entitled A Truth-loving Discourse ( Greek: Philalethes logos );

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

* Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( Discours sur les sciences et les arts ), 1750

The Discourse of Wit ( 1685 ), sometimes assigned to him, belongs to Dr David Abercromby ( q. v.

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement " Cogito ergo sum " (; ), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method ( 1637 – written in French but with inclusion of " Cogito ergo sum ") and § 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 – written in Latin ).

Nevertheless, in 1637 he published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores ( The Meteors ), La Dioptrique ( Dioptrics ) and La Géométrie ( Geometry ), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode ( Discourse on the Method ).

It was followed, in 1644, by Principia Philosophiæ ( Principles of Philosophy ), a kind of synthesis of the Meditations and the Discourse.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

* Discourse to the Greek ( Oratio ad Graecos ), by the Syrian Tatian, is the first treatise on the evils of paganism in Christian literature.

" Petruchio's " Rope Tricks ": The Taming of the Shrew and the Renaissance Discourse of Rhetoric ", Modern Philology, 92: 3 ( Fall, 1995 ), 294 – 327

* Descartes, René ( 1637 ), Discourse on Method.