Name
of the Project: Hobbes Debates Rousseau
1. Explore Rousseau's conception of the pre-societal
person living in nature. What was that conception?
2. How does it differ from what contemporary anthropologists
say about primitive people, our ancestors?
3. How might this contemporary anthropological view
change Rousseau's conception of the pre-social being?
4. Compare and contrast, and critique this with
the views of Hobbes.
5. Be sure & discuss all areas of common examination
6. Be sure & discuss all areas of agreement
& disagreement
7. Who is right? Either? Both?
Neither?
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