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John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two English thinkers who contributed their ideas to the Enlightenment. There are a few similarities between these two. They were both English thinkers, and they both lived in the 1600s. Locke and Hobbes both lived through the upheavals in England early in the 17th century. That is where the similarities end. They then formed different ideas about the nature of people. Locke stated that people were naturally good, while Hobbes stated that they were naturally evil.
In his book, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes described man as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” It was as if he was describing an evil creature, when in fact he was describing himself and the people he walked among with. Men were cruel, greedy, and selfish, and if not caged, they would fight, rob, and trouble each other. In other words, man was intrinsically evil. The cage in this case would be the government. Hobbes called it a social contract, where people gave up their natural......

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