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Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
Title: Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1862 | Pages: 7.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
TWO VIEWS ON THE STATE OF NATURE
What would life and human relations be like in the absence of government?
Political and social theorist Thomas Hobbes was the first to attempt to illustrate this
condition using an intellectual device - a "thought experiment", known as the "State of
Nature". The following quote, taken from Hobbes' book Leviathan offers this disturbing
account:
In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: …showed first 75 words of 1862 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1862 total…individual in society. The extent to which this was true varies but the one important fact remains - people existed as individuals before societies and governments came into being. They each possessed certain rights, and all had the freedom to do as they pleased, unrestrained according to Hobbes, and with some restrictions placed upon them by God, according to Locke. This freedom of the individual was important, for it was the foundation for modern liberal democracy.
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