Hobbes, Locke

Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau This comparative text is a bit complex in the assumption that all three essay questions can be properly justified in one large endeavor. I will begin by stating that I found all three philosophers writings challenging and insightful but to a point obscure and confusing. Yet each philosopher shared a distinct view on how the state of nature argument molded society. I will commence with Hobbes, then Locke, and conclude with …

…three key rights, and that the government needed to maintain all three of them as opposed to just life. Oppression and tyranny were not acceptable to Locke, but to Hobbes they were acceptable as long as they guarded the people's lives. As in for Rousseau, he was critical of existing society but through that society could be improved so that each individual could unite with others at the same time as remaining free and equal.