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• According to Rousseau, the original condition of mankind was a peaceful and quixotic time in which people lived solitary, uncomplicated lives. This differs from Locke's concept of the state of nature in that, his natural condition of mankind was a state liberty in which one was able to conduct one's life as they saw fit. Like Rousseau's, it was a time of peace between the people, but Locke's was not necessarily a solitary life.
• The state of nature for Locke was a state wherein there were no civil authorities or governments to punish people for transgressions against laws, but was not a state without morality. It was pre-political, but was not pre-moral. In it, persons were assumed to be equal to one another, and therefore equally capable of realizing and being obliged by the law of nature. (The law of nature being one internal, which commanded that no one should harm another as concerning their "life, health, liberty, or possessions" [p.4]). In Locke's pre-contract......

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