The term "state of nature" is used to describe and understand what the natural attributes and characteristics of human beings would have been like in the absence of civilization and enlightenment and how they would have interacted with one another in this state. ... These are the key views that are to be contrasted within this essay. ... This equality, however, is what leads men to have the equal hope with every other man of reaching their goals or objectives in life which are towards self-preservation or indeed a pleasure and as this equal hope for the same things which ˜nevertheless they...

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• Grade Level: Graduate