Rousseau believed in Amour De Soi, French for self-love, the concept of the self-love humans share with …show more content…
This, however, hinders not, but that philosophers may, if they please, extend their reasoning to the suppos'd state of nature; provided they allow it to be a mere philosophical fiction, which never had, and never cou'd have any reality”(Dunning).
Hume also argues that if we were all so friendly and kind to one another Justice would not be important to us, and that it only comes from the selfishness and the generosity of man along with the limited resources nature provides us. Rousseau thought that education and reason was the reason that man was “unnatural” and corrupted, which Voltaire disagreed with emphatically, which was one of many things the two did not see eye-to-eye with