The Beliefs Of John Locke And Thomas Hobbes

Part I of Essay
The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas ....

Part II of Essay
.... to protect their own lives John Locke, another English philosopher, adopted many of Hobbes work. His most important political work also appeared in 1690, the Two Treatises of Government; there he argues that the function of the state is to protect the natural rights of its citizens, primarily to protect the right to property. Though he challenged Thomas Hobbes on the nature of primitive society --for Hobbes it was "nasty, brutish, and short," while for Locke it was more rational, tolerant, and cooperative he agreed with him on the origin o ....