Partially Examined Life podcast - Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality

This is an excerpt from a prior episode of The Partially Examined Life podcast, discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and book 1 of The Social Contract. You can find the entire unabridged Rousseau podcast, along with dozens of others discussing philosophers from Plato to Kant to Wittgenstein, at the Partially Examined Life website: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com

About PEL: The podcasters were all graduate students in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin back in the Clinton years. They all left the program at some point before getting their doctorates and have consequently since had time to get outside that whole weird world of academia and reflect on it and the various philosophical topics with a different, and probably much more lazy, perspective.