Are Hobbes Locke Inherently Good Or Evil

Hobbes and Locke: “Are we inherently good or evil?”

During the XVI-XVII centuries one of the basic questions of philosophy was the problem of power and government. As known, it was at this time that England endured the revolution and civil war. Two of the most famous English philosopher of this time were Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Development issues of moral and civil philosophy, or the philosophy of the state, attracted attention of philosophers. Of course, the views of Hobbes and John. Locke, like many others, was greatly influenced by the bourgeois revolution of the XVII century. The teachings and ideas of these thinkers have played a huge role in the history of philosophy. Political views of Hobbes and Locke were the impetus for the development of political thought of the Enlightenment. Hobbes and Locke have different views on human nature and as a result come up with different government structure. Hobbes thought that we are inherently bad and therefore we need an authoritative body to keep order in society,

In "Two treatises of the government", he puts a different perspective on the original, natural state of man. Unlike Hobbes, with his thesis about the "war of all against all," Locke believes that initial absolute freedom of people is not the source of struggle, but their expression of their natural equality and readiness to follow sensible and natural laws. This natural willingness of people leads them to realize that it is in the interest of the society to give the government (which is intended to ensure the further development of the society) some of their function, while maintaining freedom. This achieves a social contract between the people, because the state arises. The state is, according to Locke, an aggregate of people connected in one unit under the same set of general law and a court empowered to settle conflicts between them and punish