Did Rousseau undermine Hobbes’ views on absolute rule? Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who wrote at a time of great civil unrest and turbulence in his own country, his major works were written in exile in France during the English Civil War. Hobbes described the “state of nature” in his Tetralogy of BooksContinue reading “What was Rousseau and Hobbes’ view of the ‘state of nature’?”
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What was Rousseau and Hobbes’ view of the ‘state of nature’?
Did Rousseau undermine Hobbes’ views on absolute rule? Hobbes famously surmised that in the state of nature – life was ‘nasty, brutish, and short’, but was he right?
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