Hobbes and Locke

Hobbes and Locke coincided in --- ideas

• 1

• 2

• 3

Answer explanation

Both philosophers were against the divine hereditary right, there is a social contract people abide by and before entering civil society, men live in a state of nature

Hobbes claimed that human's state of nature was one of harmony, freedom and order because humans were guided by the natural law of reason that helped them tell right from wrong.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Hobbes believed that the human state of nature was war, chaos, savagery because humans are guided by their impulses, not reason and a desire to compete and dominate others, the desire of self-preservation and self-pressure.

According to Locke, the purpose of the social contract is...

• to protect the rights of liberty, life and property.

• to give the power to the people

• to put an end to war, to restore peace and avoid self-destruction

The power of the sovereing is unlimited, total, complete, supreme, absolute without any division or sharing. Absolutism is better than anarchy.

• Locke

• Hobbes

In Locke's view, the social contract is terminable since the sovereign can be deposed or finishes because she/he dies, there may be new elections and it is also renewable.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Conversely, in Hobbe's view, the contract lasts forever.

While Hobbes held that citizens lose their rights, except the right of self-preservation, Locke argues that there is (a)   loss of rights

As regards the parties involved in the contract, Hobbes states that it is ----- since citizens decided to give all the power to the sovereign

• unilateral

• bilateral

Answer explanation

Locke thought that it is a bilateral contract since two parties abide by the contract, the members of society and the sovereign.