1. The Base of Civil Government
... . Look as well to Locke's characterization of man's industriousness in the state of nature, which we are able to surpass in government. This benefit, for example, is not a function of a loss of peace. the State of Nature. First, Rousseau believes the State of Nature is a "hypothetical," (Rousseau 24)" place and time where human beings lived and can never return to because of their corruption by society. Rousseau believes ... that civilization and progress have somehow polluted the goodness which was reining in the State of Nature, and that there is not any ... ...
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