Looking how each of these philosophers looked at a social contract, both Hobbes and Locke had different views on a social contract then we believe it to be. …show more content…
When it comes to philosophy, he made a range of materialist, nominalist, and empiricist views against Cartesian and Aristotelian alternatives. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict. Hobbes wrote the book, “Leviathan” in 1651 Hobbes wrote this book in the midst of the English civil war. Leviathan was written to defensing of philosophical absolutism. Writing about this Leviathan about the type of leader he like to see. The type of leader to will help people not destroy ourselves. In this book, Hobbes talks about the world before government. The world before government is known as state of nature or in to Hobbes, “a state of war of all against all.” Hobbes talk about life of the state of nature that life without government is solitary poor nasty brutish short. Hobbes believed that in the absence of an invincible absolute ruler, we would all kill each other. We need a ruler should be powerful enough to be beyond challenge. Hobbes discuss Human Nature and had interesting taught. “To explain the reasons for human conflict, Hobbes describes his view of the