Philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau examined the causes of man's misery, while Thomas Hobbes explored why man has established political societies. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes have theories on how the state of nature was before civilization emerged. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes both believed that a society existed due to political regime. ... Thomas Hobbes first acknowledged this idea in his novel Leviathan written in the 1651. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes's view on the natural state of man vary on several degrees. ...

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Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of nature, and political solutions to make society and government more utopia-like. ... Born during a time of religious warfare, this caused philosopher Thomas Hobbes to believe that humans are innately selfish and violent, and the only way they should be ruled is through a single sovereign power. Hobbes believed that humans were not driven by a higher purpose, that they were merely physical, and that human life was nasty, short, poor, brutish, and solitary. .....

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