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The State of Nature

Jean-Jacques Rousseau speculated about what the world was like before societies were created. It was important for political philosophers as it could be used to explain the motivation for creating and supporting a state.

Rousseau suggested that the state of nature was a morally neutral and peaceful condition in which individuals were self-sufficient, fairly solitary by choice, and sympathetic to others. Only when they move into society, human nature becomes corrupted.

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