The state of nature is the reverse of society. When there is no civilization, the state of nature exists. The natural state of nature is one of the major focuses in philosophy related to politics and government. Philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau examined the causes of man's misery, while Thoma...

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The enlightenment was a European era in which scholars began to reject the ideas and beliefs of the authority and the Church, and started to think for themselves. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of...

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