05623. ROUSSEAU'S THOUGHT ON THE STATE OF NATURE. Rousseau's vision of the state of nature prior to the inception of civil government in closely scrutinized, specifically in relation to the Hobbesian and Lockean views, both of which Rousseau rejects. The paper discusses in detail the underlying ideas in his thinking as expressed in the first and second discourses, notably his attempt to create an anthropology of primitive man using the peasants of the Haute Savoie as a basis. 10 pages, 7 footnotes, 2 bibliographic sources.