The old age question throughout our lifetime that never seemed to be fully answered without creating doubt is “Who are we?” That question alone to me, means so much. “WHO” are we…are we a body and soul or are we a soul in this body? Why do some souls seem so bad and others so kind? What determines that? All these questions are valid and unanswered. While great thinkers have attempted to answer them and they may be fully convinced of their belief, not all of us are. We are often left in the middle to decide between two ideas of “what is” and “who is” and which makes more sense to us. Two great thinkers that have two different view points on the matter are Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. He was the son of a poor clergyman. He was one of the greatest English political thinkers with a very conservative view on human nature. Hobbes believed that he was a psychological egoist, someone in which it was their......

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Title: Philosophy (Hobbes Vs. Rousseau)
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