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Rousseau's "Civilization" is characterized by competition, passions, and greed. Similar to the Hobbesian war that prevails before the institution of a sovereign, Rousseau agrees that the fundamental nature of man, though pure and noncombatant in nature, is tainted by the foundation of society and the advances of man...
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Hobbes's idea of a "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" life of man is hardly the case in man's natural state. Rousseau concludes that man, in nature, "being rather wild than wicked, and more intent to guard themselves against the mischief that might be done to them, than do mischief to others" do not innately perform wicked actions, but rather, are taught greed, war, jealousy and all negative characteristics through society (281)...
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