Comparing Thomas Hobbes And John Locke

Hobbes and Locke Philosophy is something that is hard to give the definition; it can be seen as a value, a way people trying to make sense to the material world, a tool people use to explain incidents. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are both English philosophers, they have a huge influence in poetical philosophy, both of them have discussed terms ‘state of nature’ and ‘contracts’; which could be seen as a term people use when discussing power, state, law, rights and obey. Hobbes and Locke both agreed on contracts as a tool can help people to leave the state of nature and join in civil society. However, they have very different options on the contract itself and government.

State of nature as a concept has been discussed over and over
Unlike Hobbes, Locke has a completely different interpreting on the term state of nature and different definitions of human nature. Locke believes that human nature is rational, therefore, in the state of nature, people are not necessary nasty and mean and always trying to kill one another. In fact, Locke believes that in the state of nature everyone one is free ‘to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they fit, with the bounds of the law of nature,' and that everyone is free and there’s no ‘common authority upon’ the people. ‘The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it.' Like Hobbes, Locke also talks about the law of nature here. However, they have a different understanding of the law of nature in the state of nature. For Locke, the law of nature is almost moral like, and perhaps even ‘more like religious commands.' From here, it can tell another fundamentally different between Hobbes and Locke, Hobbes’s discussion on state of nature and human doesn't include religious, even later on after people left the state of nature and form government t, Hobbes believes that it is people’s will that forms the government and the authority is not given by the god. Locke, however, believes that humanity has so-called ‘natural rights,' which is given by God to human beings. The neutral rights included liberty, property, and life. From here it is clear that one big difference between Hobbes and Locke is their view on religion. Locke believes that everyone has the right to protect their natural rights since others in the state nature might come and take away the natural rights that a man has, the state of natural therefore might turn into the state of war. People as rational beings would like to avoid this situation, to avoid this