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  • Comparison of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, and the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

     

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Published: 13.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes are two of the most "influential political theorists in the world"(Arbury). Their ideas and philosophies have spread all over the world influencing the creation of many new governments (Arbury). Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers with similar, yet contrasting, theories about human nature; both men developed theories on human nature and how men govern themselves. Hobbes theory is based upon the assumption that "human nature is naturally competitive and violent; while Rousseau's theory about the state of 'natural man' is one living in harmony with nature and in a better situation than that he was seeing throughout his life in Europe"(Arbury). In some cases, Hobbes has been criticized because of his "overly cynical view of human nature, whereas Rousseau has been criticized because of his naïve view of human nature" (Palaver). The concept of 'state of nature' merely means the "state of man as it would be if there were no political organization or government"(People and Idea Systems). This concept has been used by many philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a "criterion of what man's natural condition might be and how this condition has been corrupted by civilization"(Palaver).…

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