What are the similarities and differences between John Locke and Jean Rousseau's political philosophies?

John Locke
and Jean Jacques Rousseau were both enlightenment era philosophers and writers and there were
certain similarities that bound them together.Both were Social Contract Theorists, which meant
they used similar methodologies, imagining what human existence would have looked like before
people formed governments and civil societies (this is the State of Nature), from which they
could discern the fundamental purpose which governments and organized societies form.Also,
unlike Hobbes (for whom the State of Nature was defined as a state of cruelty and misery) Locke
and Rousseau had a far more positive reading of this primordial human state.Finally, both Locke
and Rousseau were strongly opposed to traditional Absolutism.

That being
said, there were striking differences between the two.For one, there was their vision of the
State of Nature (and its implications).Rousseau was much more utopian than Locke was, to the
point where one could view him as anti-enlightenment in...