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Who is Hobbes from The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau and what is their importance? The_First_and_Second_Discourses:_By_Jean-Jacques_Rousseau English & Literature Hobbes | The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Modern political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, argued that the state of nature was a "war of all against all." Rousseau disagreed with his view, embracing a view of the state of nature as containing familial concern, self-preservation and amore-propre.

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The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau