Similarities Between Hobbes And Rousseau

Rousseau believed that human nature is good but eventually they get brainwashed and become evil but Hobbes thinks otherwise. Hobbes states that humans are evil by nature and we need some sort of power in order to be controlled and be civilized. Rousseau thought that humans are born into the world with good intentions. He said there was a point when no one had property and we were happy. Eventually the human race began to grow, starting a chain of conflicts. Hobbes thought that by nature, we are very competitive and it leads to distrust, insecurity, and total chaos. Hobbes promotes monarchy as the perfect solution to control everyone and their problems. I agree with Rousseau’s point of view of the human race rather than Hobbes point of view because I don’t think humans are born evil, we become evil when we start claiming things as ours and we begin to compete with others.

“The difference of soils, climates and seasons, must have introduced some differences into their manner of living” (Rousseau, paragraph 2). Men started to develop skills in order to survive and everyone was rewarded equally. Eventually, some
He claims that by nature, if two people want the same thing, they are willing to kill each other just to accomplish their personal goal. Hobbes states that without a common power, everyone is at war with each other. Because of that, people don’t trust each other. They lock their doors in the house, they almost never travel alone, we practically can’t do anything by ourselves unless we have company. (Hobbes, paragraph 4). According to Hobbes, in order to prevent all this conflict, he is saying Monarchy is the solution to control everyone and solve all the problems men have. He sees the human race as “too crazy” to be able to control themselves. Unless we don’t apply Monarchy into our society, we will start a