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Acknowledgements; A preliminary note on vocabulary and conventions;Introduction; 1. The problem: the intersection of beneficence and pudicity;2. The code of beneficence; 3. The practice of beneficence and modelbenefactors in the major works; 4. The passion of pity in Rousseau's theoryof man; 5. Gyges' ring: A reading of Rousseau's 6e Promenade; 6. Pudicity insome of Rousseau's minor writings: its relationship to beneficence;Conclusion; Appendix: Generosity and pudicity in Gyges und sein Ring and LeRoi Candaule; Notes; Bibliography; Index.