Our artificial faculties have made us weak, a weakness that is intrinsically unnatural. Rousseau states that in order to understand man in the state of nature, we must evaluate and criticize wild man, man as he exists and survives in the state of nature. Rousseau's theory of the natural state of man demonstrates that he does not agree with the concept of the state of nature as theorized by Hobbs; as a state of war of each against all, and Locke's assertion that natural man is rational and that the state of nature is one in which man has the capacity to reason. Instead, Locke is convinced that in his natural state, once stripped of the artificial structures of human invention and improvement, man is fundamentally a beast and it is from here that his natural need for improvement drove man to create a civil, political society. . This unnatural evolution is where man sets the stage for inequality. Rousseau's discomfort with the idea that man's natural state could be both organic and hierarchical is also evident in his theory of human nature. Unlike philosophers before him, Rousseau's theory manages to be more comprehensive because he is able to examine the behavior of man in his natural state and provide a rational argument based on his understanding of human evolution and anatomy comparative human. Rousseau's new radical theory of human nature strengthens his belief that wild man was a peaceful man, but this man was dissatisfied. The natural human need for interaction and human nature reaffirms that wild man was a peaceful man, but he was also dissatisfied. The need for interaction, and the need for improvement to find actualization have influenced several important changes...... middle of paper ......y the development of agriculture, the division of lands and its cultivation; and property became the first rule of justice. In this state things could have remained the same if the talents, the use of resources, etc. had been the same, but in civil society, or rather, in the "state of civilization" of man, natural inequality manifests itself imperceptibly together to unequal associations. Rousseau's thesis is that the The only natural inequality among men is that which results from differences in physical strength. As Rousseau goes on to explain that in the state of civilization, the creation of social institutions, laws, language and property, and our ability to reason have corrupted natural [savage] man and given rise to forms of inequality that do not conform to laws of nature. Rousseau calls these unjustifiable and unacceptable forms of moral inequality,