Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Enlightenment can be found in Jean-Charles de Lavie’s abridged and modified edition of Jean Bodin’s sixteenth-century classic, Les six livres de la république . In Abrégé de la République de Bodin (1755), Lavie has Bodin saying that … thought. 8 It was the scientists of the nineteenth century who would eventually ‘naturalise’ social differences of class, gender and race, foregrounding them in order to justify social hierarchies. 8 . Pierre Rosanvallon, La société des … Larousse predicted that the growing role of reciprocity in social life would soon bring an end to the inequalities and class conflicts of the capitalist order: ‘With every day [reciprocity] tends to replace antagonisms, which, until now, …
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