What Are John Locke's Views Over Thomas Hobbes

The formation of government is one of the central themes for both Hobbes and Locke. Whether or not men naturally form a government, or must form a government, is based on man’s basic nature. According to Hobbes, a government must be formed to preserve life and prevent loss of property. According to Locke, a government arises to protect life and property. Governments are born of inequality and formed to administer equality.

Change is in the inevitable byproduct of society. As societies evolve they change according to the life style of the people who inhabit them. Without change, society would never progress and thus would be frozen in a single moment in time. Thomas Hobbes and John Lock were two English philosophers who observed tremendous changes in English politics between the years of 1640 and 1690. In closely examining the views of both of these philosophers in subject areas such as the nature of man in society, the relationship between a society and its government, and the affect that both philosophers’ novels had on the government, it can be concluded that both Hobbes and Locke’s philosophies created prominent change in the methods of government.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were both English Political philosophers. The two both had similar outlooks on where authority lies within a society. They both believed in a constitution where the people gave control to govern their government. Locke was more influential than Hobbes in helping shape modern politics. The influence one has made that can be done to change a government by the people was by Hobbes.

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his can be because people outside the United States do not understand the limited amount of relative influence the Department of Commerce has on everyday Americans. This can stem from a historical debate between John Locke view of government and Hobbes which is also Jean-Jacques Rousseau more socialist view of how an economy works. In The Dragon and the Elephant, two countries are contrasted in terms of economic growth, China and India. India can be thought of a country more influenced by Locke. In the past India, Influenced by Indira Gandhi thought that it would be best if they limited the amounts of imports and horrified by the social effects of the industrial age in Europe, attempted to keep a nonalignment policy, a policy which kept countries

In the novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, British boys are stuck on a tropical island in beautiful weather. On the island there is a lot of fruit trees for the boys to eat from. Even though they’re in paradise and don’t have to worry, there is still mankind they have to worry about. In the novel there are two characters that resemble two philosophers, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The character that resembles John Locke is Ralph and the character that resembles Thomas Hobbes is Jack.

Compare and contrast Hobbes’s and Locke’s views of the state of nature and the fundamental purpose of political society. Whose view is the more plausible? Why?

John Locke to me will forever be the MORE correct philosopher out of these two. First and foremost because the government I grew up in and was taught to believe in whole-heartedly is based more on Sir John Locke’s ideas and theories than it is on Thomas Hobbes’s. I say that now to get it out of the way so I can move on to more intelligible and thought provoking facts and opinions behind this personal belief. To translate the messy, spider webbed, hectic thought that’s in my head in the simplest way possible, I believe it’s hard to make either type of government work. It’s just especially hard to make an absolute monarch/”one man show” work. A monarch is basically a gamble because you have no say in who’s the leader. You just have to hope that the past leader was a half-ass decent parent who raised a child to have a good head on his/her shoulders and won’t drive the entire country into the ground. Now the beliefs and theories that John Locke had listed in his book The Two Treatises of Government state that since a government is something created by people to protect people’s rights and liberties that the people should have a say in who’s running the whole show and at least a little say in what the government does. Now, all of that is just the very basic idea of these two philosophies so of course there’s more to cover.

Comparing Thomas Hobbes and John Locke’s views concerning what life is like in a state of nature we can see that the two-theorist’s share opposite views in making an assumption of what the sate of nature is like. Thomas Hobbes’ views include pessimistic views of nature and how its effects can influence man to selfishly consider what he would need to do to secure his safety while John Locke presents a natural concept that assumes there is a universal thought of good that man is aware of. Attempting to justify the role of government or justice by understanding the state of nature can be somewhat accurate and can be considered for such purposes but may fail to answer some aspects of society overall and leave other things unanswered. In regards to understanding one’s self and how they view things, establishing a concept of what human nature is and then using it to form government, which will then re-enforce good and combat the dark aspects of human nature can be good. Critics of this form of development leading to the creation of a government or justice who can be considered would be those aware of the philosophical works by Aristotle who offers true or false statements pertaining to different forms of governments in his book Politics (4th Century). By knowing Aristotle’s views on political associations and government, it can be said that, his views would not be similar to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke’s as all three theorists’ offer a different view on the same things while

Throughout history there have been numerous political philosophers, and many would agree that John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were the most important of them all. Both of these philosophers had various different theories on what things like a perfect government and a time before government would have been like. Thomas Hobbes tended to lean on the more extreme side of defining humanity, while John Locke had a more peaceful and “humane” idea of the definition of humanity. This essay will be comparing both philosopher’s major theories of the social contract, “The State of Nature,” and the definition of what humans really are.

Contrasting Hobbes and Locke Nearly two-hundred and twenty-five years ago the United States of America chose to fight a Thomas Hobbes government, with the hope of forming a John Locke institution. The ideas of these men lead to the formation of two of the strongest nations in the history of the world: Great Britain followed by the United States. Thomas Hobbes viewed the ideal government as an absolute monarchy, due to the chaos of the state of nature in contrast, John Locke’s ideal government was a democracy due to his beliefs of the equality of men. These men have shared a few of the same beliefs, but mainly contrast each other.

Most people in the eighteenth-century believed in Newtonian science. Newton established natural laws of the universe which then led people to compile a general list of laws that were from human behaviors. In the chapter, there were two theories that were discussed. One being liberty while the other being political. The political contract based in natural law was influenced by two English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. The two shared diverse views. For example, Hobbes believed that human being are selfish, greedy, and warlike. On the other side of the spectrum, Locke believed that human beings have the natural ability to justify the common good, and to be equal. The two philosophers believed that the government should be based

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes are one of the most influential and famous philosophers who both had similar theories but had different conclusions. The two philosophers wrote a discourse “life in the state of nature” and argued about the government. They both had made important and logical contributions to modern philosophy and opened up political thoughts which have impacted our world today. During the seventeenth century the thought of political philosophy became a big topic. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes both started questioning the political philosophy and had had different views and reasoning towards human beings. Both Hobbes and Locke had logical and reasonable theories in which they had opposed to one another. Although each philosopher

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two main political philosophers during the seventeenth century. Hobbes is largely known for his writing of the “Leviathan”, and Locke for authoring "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." Included in their essays, both men discuss the purpose and structure of government, natural law, and the characteristics of man in and out of the state of nature. The two men's opinion of man vary widely. Hobbes sees man as being evil, whereas Locke views man in a much more optimistic light. While in the state of nature and under natural law, they both agree that man is equal. However, their ideas of natural law differ

Throughout history, there have been many political philosophers whom influenced the government seen in history books and in modern-day society. Despite the varying ideas about government by each political theorist, aspects of each individual idea can be seen in several political documents such as the United States Declaration of Independence. One of these political theorists being Thomas Hobbes, who believed that people would benefit greatly from a Monarch. While John Locke, another renowned political theorist believed that, though the government could help the people, but did not need absolute control over every aspect of their lives. Though, both theorists had different ideology on the structure of the government the ideas would later go on to influence several political documents including the United States Declaration of Independence.