According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, human beings receive the blessings of liberty during their individual genesis on this fertile planet, but this natural liberty is immensely limited as it is exchanged for civil liberties of the state. He indicated that the supplanting of natural freedom is necessary to obtain greater power for a greater collective community, but that the prospect of obtaining superlative abilities comes at the price of constraints. Yet, this notion of natural freedom conflicts with Thomas Hobbes' interpretation of the state of nature as he illustrates that nature interfaces through wildness. According to Hobbes, humanity has approved and adopted nature's temperament, because this system of truculence and servility around which nature orbits negatively affects the nature of humanity, resulting in humanity's affinity for nature. greed and brutal ambition. Despite their conflicting views on the state of nature, both support and explain the idea that the preservation and proliferation of humanity as a whole is best achieved through their belief and refrain from social contract policies. The Leviathan's intention is to create this perfect government, from which people ardently yearn to separate, at the request of individuals giving up their innate rights. This Commonwealth, the coming together of people for the purpose of preventing unrest and war, is based on laws that prohibit injustice through the implementation of sanctions. Essentially, in the minds of Rousseau and Hobbes, constraints are necessary for human beings to be truly free by virtue of the pacts and contracts applied to the civil state in which humanity interfaces. All the constituents of a society...... middle of paper ......ns. Hobbes, insist that the nature of humanity is a state of savagery if left to its own devices and that the amalgamation of people under the bounds of law allows people to seek the peace they thirst for . Rather, Rousseau argues that people are a naturally social species and that submission to the greater good of the community by separating themselves from their innate rights is paramount in the face of the superfluidity of society. Both essentially agree that giving up the natural right to civil liberties within the state is a necessary exchange for the preservation of both the individual and the state itself. Works Cited Hobbes, Thomas and CB Macpherson. Leviathan; Edited with an introduction by CB MacPherson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. Print. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques and GDH Cole. On the social contract. New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Print.