Talk:Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Choice of translation
The G.D.H. Cole translation of the Second Discourse is not the best. Strongly recommended is that of Roger Masters - his translation of the First and Second Discourses is much more trustworthy and he is careful to maintain all of Rousseau's notes intact. Rousseau felt his notes were important and in other writings encourages the reader to read his works at least twice. One can read the Second Discourse much more often and still gain from it. (Roger Winters, Seattle, rwinters@seanet.com)
 * What is the copyright status of Masters translation? If it is in line with our policies we could always have both translations.--BirgitteSB 00:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The Rogers Masters translation is from 1993 and very much copyrighted. --BirgitteSB 11:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

New source
FYI, I have started an index page for an edition of this work here. --Waldyrious (talk) 17:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)