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Many philosophers have taken special interest in examining the condition of human beings outside of the influence of civilization. They have stripped this situation down into what they termed a “state of human nature”. However, from this point, the theorists’ views have separated into different perceptions of how the “basic” human being would behave and act prior to the development of society, state, and laws. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke have provided influential in-depth explanations as to the circumstances of human nature that describe a human being as antagonistic individual who is required to have a sovereign govern over him so as to not inflict violence or intrude on another’s rights or property. On the contrary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau offered a radically different analysis from the previous theorists’ conceptions by strongly arguing that the “savage man” is much more content than the civil man in which there is no need to cease being in this particular......

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