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René Descartes | * René Descartes | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau] | |||
** believed that people are naturally good, therefore nature is basically good; culture is what corrupted people | |||
=== English === | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes Thomas Hobbes] | |||
** Conservative philosopher, relatively to Rousseau when it came to anthropology | |||
** believed that in the state of nature, every person is at another person's throat; only thing that prevented this murderous intent was the imposition of a collective agreement (aka social contract) that would govern how people would interact | |||