Since the release of man from the animal world he is interested in the question of what rights he has as a person, and what rights he has in relation to society. In the formation of different types of society people are wondering who is to manage the activities of all of this society, and what legal form it should represent. Does individuals shape government? What rights and responsibilities occur between the state and the people when it occurs? Interesting point of view on the natural rights of man and the state express Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Talking about the social contract, both these philosophers presented a hypothetical account of a pre-political era, which they referred to as, the state of nature. Basically, the underlying element …show more content…
The mutual thread between Hobbes’s state of nature and Locke's state of nature is that Hobbes and Locke both speak of the dangers of a state of nature. Both men refer to men as equal in this state; Hobbes says that "nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of mind and body ... the difference between man and man is not so considerable" (Hobbes, Leviathan 80-81]. Similarly, Locke describes the nature of nature as "a state of perfect freedom, where naturally there is no control or jurisdiction of one over another" [Wootton, 288]. Despite this equality, however, both men warned of the danger that the state of nature. For Hobbes, as long as the man is in a state of nature, is in a state of war. He states that "if two men cannot enjoy the same thing, and become enemies on the way to its final then attempt to destroy or subdue one another" [Hobbes, Leviathan 70]. Locke also notes the risks, saying that without the "law of nature" everyone can execute the decisions, which leads to a state of war [Locke, 9]. In general, both of them refer to the dangers of a state of nature, and describe the war existing in the state of nature. However, while both speak of the dangers of a state of nature, Hobbes is more pessimistic, whereas Locke speaks of the potential