Abstract
Aim: The paper aims at highlighting philosophical roots of the relation issue between nature and education in the process of socialization.
 Method: For the purpose of the research critical philosophical analysis and comparison of Thomas Hobbes’ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s texts has been used.
 Concept: The first part of the paper clarifies the concept of nature and explains changes in understanding of this concept thorough the history of philosophy, with the special emphasis on transformation that happened in transition from medieval to modern period. Since both Hobbes and Rousseau are representatives of modern philosophy, the second section of the paper shows how modern concept of nature manifests in the works of the two philosophers and compares, in a more detailed way, their understanding of human nature or natural state of mankind, focusing on comparison of their concepts of human natural unsociability. The third part examines more closely the role of education in transformation of human individuals into social beings.
 Results: Research shows that, for the two philosophers, the role of education in the process of socialization consists in denaturalization of human beings.
 Conclusion: Hobbes’ and Rousseau’s idea of the relation of education and nature in the process of socialization constitutes a basis for justification of manipulations of education for political ends. To avoid such manipulations and find the adequate concept of education, paper suggests to search for the adequate concept of human nature first. 
 Key Words: education, human nature, sociability, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Highlights
Education unquestionably plays a crucial role in socialisation of an individual
Hobbes’ and Rousseau’s ideas of the relation of education and nature in the process of socialisation constitute a basis for justiÀcation of manipulations of education for political ends. To avoid such manipulations and Ànd the adequate concept of education, the paper suggests searching for an adequate concept of human nature Àrst
Is education something that should help human nature to develop in a direction of its own intrinsically traced social goals or is education something that should change nature in order to generate a social existence of a human being? This paper attempts to offer the philosophical basis for answers to these questions by critically analysing the role of education in formation of human sociability in the works of two modern philosophers – Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Summary
Through education the human being develops his communication skills, empathy, sense of community and teamwork, etc It seems that nowadays the exact role of education in this process of socialisation is Ethics not perfectly clear. Even though Rousseau sometimes speaks of human natural goodness, this is not a moral goodness in a proper sense of the word, because, according to this philosopher, a human being by his nature does not make moral distinctions between good and evil. These distinctions arise from the relationships which form an organised society (Rousseau, 2002b). The English philosopher thinks that one cannot talk about moral distinctions before the act of a social contract and constitution of commonwealth (Hobbes, 2005a; Hobbes, 2007)
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