What did Rousseau and Hobbes have in common? In what ways did they disagree?
Hobbles and Rousseau shares the same understanding about the human nature. They both have followed the natural impulses for the development of the understanding about the nature of the human. Hobbles declared that the human nature is quite selfish as well as animalistic. He proposed that the nature of the human has to be governed by the government.
According to him, brutish impulses of the human have to be employed under control. Hobbles revelations about the nature of the human was supported by the various theologians as well as the philosophers.
Rousseau view for the human nature was in complete contraction with the hobbles view. According to him, human were born good. He said that the societal institutions effect modified the human nature to be bad. He claimed that the human behavior is controlled by the emotions and the feelings.
Human is not selfish at all. Rousseau said that by nature human are the social animal, who want to live in complete harmony with others. If the society allows the human to develop freely without any force, they would be socially minded happiest creature ever. They will do the best for themselves as well as for the society.