SOC231H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mary Wollstonecraft, Complex Number, Labour Power
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Rousseau and hobbes were both interested in determining the origins of society. Rousseau wrote a book called emile and sophy, as a guide on how to raise children. Rousseau and hobbes on the origins of society in paris and was a figurate for the enlightenment school. He was the first to coin the term society and his argument was premised on his concept of the state of nature and the social contract . Rousseau believed there was two conditions the natural and the social , and in order to understand the origins of society, one must understand how humans existed in the state of nature. He knew that today it was impossible to study humans who live beyond the social, so instead looked at animals to understand the natural . For rousseau, man in nature has neither language nor-knowledge, and harmony is maintained through satisfying all of one"s needs.
