Comparing John Locke And Jean Jacques Rousseau

In society there is no one more qualified, than oneself to decide how and where they live and who governs them. In addition, no single group of individuals should possess the power to produce, enforce and vote upon laws that dictate how an individual lives their life; unless that particular individual grants a certain amount of power to let another individual do so. There is one individual who shared this opinion or notion, about government and society with me, and his name was Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau once said, “No man has any natural authority over his fellow men”, and I could not agree more with him.
Rousseau remains one of the most significant figures in political philosophy, because of his theories on social contracts, the state
However, Rousseau was not the first philosopher to discuss social contracts, or the state of man in nature or even personal liberties. Actually Rousseau’s theories followed those of Thomas Hobbs, and John Locke, whom both of them had published similar concepts. Nonetheless, Rousseau’s theories were extremely different than those of Hobbs and Locke’s based on the state of nature, regarding primitive man. For example, Hobbs perceived primitive man in the state of nature, as shit show of inhumane acts of violence. Now Locke perceived the state of nature of man very differently than that of Hobbs. Locke believed that in the state of nature man is completely free, but that ultimate freedom will give way to man’s ultimate desire of personal liberty, which he linked to private property rights and the necessary creation of
Rousseau’s main issue or theory was not private property or individual freedoms and the formation of government to protect those rights, like John Locke, but to find a way to persevere human freedom and humanity as a whole to safeguard the common good for all of society, in a world where citizens have become completely dependent upon one another for survival. Rousseau’s notion or theory encompassed two main aspects, which were the materialist aspect of humanity and the psychological aspect of humanity. According to Rousseau, human beings obtain their sense of self-worth from the opinions of others within their given society, which is why private property and materialistic items create the very concept of evil within society, because human beings want to impress each other with what items they possess, and when those in society don’t possess enough items to impress others, then conflict arises. Rousseau’s view on personal liberties, such as private property and possessions, is that they are the corrosive aspect of freedom and the absolute devastation of economic equality within a society. In order to protect society’s freedom as a whole and the very essence of economic equality from man’s corruptive nature, due to societal influences, he proposed the institutionalization of a political