ot against him. He returned to France in spite of the fact that he was subject to arrest, but as it happens he was left alone. He died in 1778 (Copleston 60-61).
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF ROUSSEAU
As noted, Locke and Rousseau are similar in the way they describe government as deriving its legitimacy from a social contract. The differences between the two may derive from the times in which they lived and the interests of the people in those different eras. Locke wrote at a time of social unrest and questioning, at a time when the long-standing sovereignty of kings as ordained by God was coming into question. Locke did not see the power of kings as being given to them by God but rather as deriving from some social condition, and to analyze this condition he asked first what state man would be in if there were no government. He looked back to the s
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