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John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Locke, who wrote The Second Treatise of Civil Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote, The Social Contract, both have unique views of nature and “social contract.” After their time they each made individual impacts on the way society thinks. They started a new way of thought which is now known as behaviorism. Behaviorism is a school of psychology that confines itself to the study of observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior and excludes subjective phenomena, such as emotions or motives. John Locke, who was born in 1632 and died in 1704, had a huge impact on Human Understanding. He envisioned that the mind is blank at the time of birth. The mind grows and develops through time and experience, either simple or complex. This idea is one of the first thoughts on what is now modern behaviorism. He believed that human nature can be modified by environment, and he doesn’t agree with the Christian faiths concept of the original sin. Locke believes that you create your own destiny. During Locke’s time he argued that rulers are not absolute in t