HIST 4113 Chapter : Locke Versus Rousseau 1
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Compare and contrast rousseau"s picture of the the state of nature" (in discourse of the origins of inequality ) with that of john locke. In discerning distinguishable qualities from these two works i believe it is necessary to view both historical contexts to a moderate degree. The state of nature" was a view from the early enlightenment. Locke was an early english philosopher who helped shape the ideas which formed the philosophical principle of the social contract theory. Rousseau was a french philosopher who looked at a possible utopian society from which the innocent primate would be freed from the perversion of society that the creation of property had caused. This paper will argue the differences between both locke and. Rousseau"s view of the state of nature for man, and their similar yet differing views of property. John locke"s second treatise was written in 1690 and was a very influential philosophical layout against charles ii.
