Through the development of the Polis, both Hobbes and Rousseau have stood as highly influential theorists of the Social Contract. Although both writers would strongly agree for the development of society and the importance of a Social Contract, the actual methods and ends are quite distinct for each man. Hobbes’ contract aims at assuring Civil Peace through the use of the ruler to secure the contract in exchange for obedience of the people. In contrast …showed first 75 words of 1952 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1952 total…is crucial in assuring Civil Peace. On the contrary, Rousseau would greatly argue that this role conflicts with the General Will and disrupts the contracts ability to defend man’s right to self-preservation. But despite the diverse structures and methods of each Social Contract, both Hobbes and Rousseau recognized man’s necessity to form these contracts to raise man from the State of Nature to a more conventional form of society that can preserve mankind.