Hobbes Vs Rousseau

How can justice be administered into our societies?
One of the most controverted and debated theme of philosophy regards the argument of justice. What could define justice? And how can justice be administered into our societies? Two philosophers as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau arrive at the same solution even if intended in a slightly different way: “The Social Contract”.
Thomas Hobbes starts his analysis by analyzing the nature of men. Hobbes sustain in his analysis that all men are born into a condition of substantial equality, the differences are so small that they could not be considered relevant into the achievement of their goals. This equality became for Hobbes the cause of differences between men, and brings them to try to …show more content…
Men experience the first political society while staying inside the family. This is because the children have to renounce their freedom in order to receive the protection from the family. This situation ends as soon as the child is being able to sustain himself, this is the moment when he regains his freedom by separating from the family. So why do we need a social contract? For Rousseau, the Social Contract is necessary because men have surpassed the limit into where they could be able to survive in the world with their own resource gathering. In order for men to be able to survive in this world that doesn’t offer the necessary resources the only way is to aggregate with other humans and cooperate to collect the resources. The Social Contract means the renounce of the man right in favor of the collectivity, each man became a part of a whole and puts his freedom and his right in the hand of the general will. This association create for Rousseau the base of the formation of a politic body that could end up with a State or a Sovereignty. The Sovereignty is a formula that imply a double contract for the man, one with the state and one with all the individuals. This kind of bonds make the Sovereignty system impossible to develop interests different to the community interest because any one inside the community will never make anything to hurt himself, and this bring it to have no guarantees on its members. In this situation, every member can have a different opinion over the administration of the general will, when this happens is in the state power the right to force him to be free. With the civil state that is originated by the appliance of the Social Contract the instinct of the people is substitute with justice. Is justice that provide morality to men and that lead

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