“Discourse on the beginning and basis of inequality between people, composed by M. J. J. Rousseau” is a work by the outstanding French thinker and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French Jean-Jacque Rousseau, 1712-1778). *** Inequality, according to the author, should be destroyed in a state where private individuals have general information about each other. The prose writer’s world fame was brought to him by his works “The New Heloise, or Letters of Two Lovers”, “Russian Letters on Botany”, “Seven Letters to Different Persons on Education”, “Philosophical Solitary Walks of Jean Jacques Rousseau, or His Last Confession, Written by Himself”, “Man, be humane,” “The Social Contract,” the play “Pygmalion” and the poem “Fortune, de qui la main couronne.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau became famous as an outstanding figure of the Enlightenment and a man of broad vision. His works on philosophy, botany and music are deeply appreciated by his contemporaries in France and throughout the world.