Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both experienced different things in their life, resulting in their differences and similarities in what they believed. At the time Hobbes was writing The Leviathan, England was recovering from a series of civil wars, which resulted in the beheading of Charles I. In the Leviathan he is responding to this situation a period called the interregnum, during this time England was rejecting the institution of the monarchy. Eventually it ended with the restoration of Charles
introduced by philosophers. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Karl Marx all had a major influence to today’s government. Hobbes and Locke had very diverse ideas and conclusions about the role of the government. Marx on the other hand, believed that all men were born free, but society shaped their lives. In the end, Marx thought that the proletariat would be most successful. Locke’s philosophy of government would not be as popular if there were no other ideas of government provided by Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, authors of Leviathan and the Second Treatise of Government respectively and two of England’s premier political philosophers of the seventeenth century, set out to describe the nature of man and the origins of his sociability. The social contract, as it is called now, was described by both of them with many similarities, but containing dramatic key difference which stemmed from their exposure to the culture and society that was current in England during their time. Hobbes
stated this idea, one of the first Western philosophers to express it again was Thomas Hobbes, having been influenced by Aristotle. In his 1650 book Human Nature, he discussed the nature of perceptions and thoughts, and presented the idea that the mind goes