Natural man is not motivated by love or greed of material goods. In other words, a real state of nature in the Rousseau’s mind is when people live together in peace and harmony because he assumes that would be enough resources for people who survive without conflict or war. Rousseau calls pre-political man to the state of nature presented by Hobbes and Locke. According to Rousseau, pre-political man has yet to form a government, but has been degraded from the natural state by the goals of acquisition of wealth and property. Ultimately, mankind enters into a civil society leaving its nature state when we move from the goal of self-preservation to the goal of acquaint wealth and property. Then, when this happens, mankind becomes corrupted by envy and motivated by
Natural man is not motivated by love or greed of material goods. In other words, a real state of nature in the Rousseau’s mind is when people live together in peace and harmony because he assumes that would be enough resources for people who survive without conflict or war. Rousseau calls pre-political man to the state of nature presented by Hobbes and Locke. According to Rousseau, pre-political man has yet to form a government, but has been degraded from the natural state by the goals of acquisition of wealth and property. Ultimately, mankind enters into a civil society leaving its nature state when we move from the goal of self-preservation to the goal of acquaint wealth and property. Then, when this happens, mankind becomes corrupted by envy and motivated by