Psychology of Inequality
In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau''s work...
In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau''s work...
