Hobbes and Locke

Thomas Hobbes was interested in why people allowed themselves to be ruled and what would be the best form of government for England. In 1651, Hobbes wrote his most famous work, the Leviathan. In it, he argued that people were naturally evil and could not be trusted to govern. The constant state of war is what Hobbes believed to be man’s original state of nature. According to Hobbes, man should not be trusted in the …

…will of any other man. " (Locke 4) By joining into a community, Locke thinks man loses his natural liberties and now has to live by the laws of civil society. Therefore, Locke states, “For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.”(353)