Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes And John Locke

During the Enlightenment period, two Enlightenment thinkers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke developed two distinct social contract. In their social contract, they share theories of how the government should be run and their views on humanity. Thomas Hobbes social contract stated that people need an Absolute Monarch to rule society. On the hand John Locke believes that society should be run based on consent between the people and the government. If presented the opportunity I would choose Thomas Hobbes to lead my country because without a strong government to impose law and order chaos and instability will ensue and eventually the country is going to fall apart. John Locke theory of government is that it should be run based on a social contract

This Absolute Monarch will be run based on a social contract where the people will give up some of their freedom in order to have protection. He believes that people are naturally selfish; wicked and only do things that are in their self-interest. One of his theories on humanity is that if they don’t have a government “ life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,’’ since there are no consequences for poor decisions and actions. Thus, by having an Absolute Monarch is the only way to keep people safe from each other and themselves. This year's presidential election is an example of Hobbes theories, because after the Republicans won the election, people who were not pleased with the result began to blame someone else for making this happens when in reality they were involved in it since most of them choose not to vote just because they did not agree with the candidates. By protesting for days trying to get a lot of followers to follow them so they can stop Donald Trump from becoming President when they already knows that it’s too late. People were only thinking about how their lives might change if that candidate becomes president and they were not thinking about anyone else. They were to overstep on anyone who did not share the same opinions as they. If we did not have a strong government and law in place they probably would have killed each other over this just because

Without a strong government we won’t be able to protect our natural rights, having a government that you give up some of your freedom to them is better than living in a world where we can do whatever we want to people since the government will not have a say in it since they will be afraid of being overthrown. For instance, Hobbes states that “without governments to keep order, there would be war of every man against every man.’’ Everything we do in life is based on how that might help us or hurt us. For example, when I get assigned homework and ponder whether I should do it, I think about how that might affect my grades. I complete the assignment because that is beneficial to me, not someone else. In contrast, if someone else has asked me to do their homework for them I won’t do it because it is not going to help me or hurt me; it is only going to affect them. This is similar to society because if we did not like all those branches of government we could have done something to remove them from our country, but when people think about what will happen when they don’t have them, it scares them because the country will fall apart and someone else will rise to power and try to fix society but if the people don’t like that person