John locke v thomas hobbes
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Hobbes, Locke, and the Social Contract
The 17th century was among the most chaotic and destructive the continent of Europe had ever witnessed in the modern era. From 1618-1648, much of Central Europe was caught in the throes of the Thirty Years War, the violent breakup of the Holy Roman Empire. The conflict marked by religious violence between Catholics and Protestants, shameless dynastic maneuvering, famine, disease, and other unimaginable atrocities, still ranks among one of the largest disasters to affect Europe to this day. England and Scotland also became engulfed in a civil conflict in this period between royalist supporters of the Stuart Dynasty and supporters of Parliamentary rights that had religious dimensions as well. Though the war only lasted approximately ten years, the instability it caused in the form of continuing guerilla warfare, famine, revolution, and intermittent rebellion lasted for the next few decades. These decades of suffering and instability produced by these wars raised many questions about human nature, civil society, and most importantly, how to structure government to effectively prevent further breakdowns in public order. This had the side effect of producing two of th
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The Common Contract Theories of Socialist Hobbes endure John Locke: Comparative Appreciation
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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were two of the most important political philosophers of the modern era. While their theories were different in many respects, they jointly laid the ground for modern liberalism, modern political philosophy, and modern political economy. Hobbes’s greatest contribution was his innovative framework and concepts such as the state of nature, indivisible sovereign rights vested in civil authority, and the idea that an all-powerful political authority could be created by men rather than by God. Hobbes argued that the natural state of men was a state of all against all, as everyone would have the right to use all and any means for self-preservation, where everyone would have the right to everything. From this, he argued that it was natural for men to desire peace and that any form of government capable of preserving peace was better than civil war. He called for the creation of the Leviathan, an omnipotent, sovereign, civil, political power that was the only form of government capable of preventing civil war. Citizens in Hobbes’s commonwealth were subjects who voluntarily gave up almost all of their power and rights (aside from the right to self-preservation) to create the Leviathan because any form of peace was preferable to the war of all against all. I