"Government and its laws provide for the security and well-being of men united in society, while literature, the sciences and the arts...strew garlands of flowers on the iron chains that bind them, make them forget the original freedom for which they seem to have been born, cause them to love their slavery, and turn them into what is known as a civilized people.

For Hobbes the state of nature, war of all against all, gives birth to the state of man, power and pleasure seeking, which in turn gives birth to a state of government, a means of controlling man at war while still allowing individual advancement. Rousseau sees the chain of even

Hobbes views the human person in an eight-part structure, material; man is a material body interacting with matter within the world, sensing; human's senses are the receptors of mater in the material world, radically individual; each human senses one form of matter different than another and thus our experiences are individually isolated, passionate; humans are fixated by pleasure and pain, power-seeking; because of mans fixation towards pleasure and pain they are constantly seeking power in order to satisfy these passions, equal; man is equal to one another due to their radical differences in experience, free; man's individuality allows no one person to have authority over another, and reasoning; because man is power-seeking he tries to find efficient ways to purging his passions. Through this mapping of the state of man it is apparent that Hobbes merely views humans as independently self-interested.

Rousseau's view of the state of nature is less ruthless than Hobbes and his entrance of man into civil society is less viable. Rousseau believes t

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