Hobbes vs locke human nature

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 fo