Thoughts On Nature
The study of human nature has experienced much philosophical thought throughout the Modern Age. While many modern thinkers have developed unique ideas about man in the state of nature, none are more influential than the theories of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In this essay, I am primarily concerned with defining what philosophical theory is more plausible in today’s society. Is human nature, just an environment of man against man; full of competiveness and violence, or is it a harmonized lifestyle as being one with nature without the corruption of society?
Each philosopher agrees that men are created equal in the state of nature, but it is this equality which forms two very contrasting theories. Hobbes believed the equality of men is the key factor which sets man against man and makes life “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (Leviathan p. 84). For Hobbes, the only law in nature is survivalism; one must do what he must to preserve one’s own life. In......
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