Thomas Hobbes vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes are two great writers in the 16 and 17 hundreds. Each of them epitomizes the general philosophical periods of their age, Hobbes and the Empiricist, and Rousseau with the Romantics. The social contract is a huge part of the conflict between the two. Even with the fundamental basis for both arguments, they are developed in differing ways. Hobbes believes that without it, people would not be able …showed first 75 words of 877 total…

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