Hobbes and Locke - Why Government?

What is the "State of Nature" according to Hobbes?

• Agreement between people and their government
• Everyone had a right to everything
• People are born with a tabula rasa - blank slate
• Life, Liberty and Property

What are Natural Rights?

• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• Life, liberty and property
• Tabula rasa - born with a mind like a blank slate
• Protection from the Government

What is the Leviathan?

• The social contract between the government and people
• Monarchy with little power
• The monster
• A way of living before governments

Who believes humans are born poor, nasty, brutish and short?

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• The English Monarchy
• Sir William Jones

A social contract according to Locke - states that people give up ___________ freedoms, in exchange for protection.

• all
• some
• most 
• two

According to Hobbes, social is a two way street.

• True
• False

Which person believed in a strong central authority was the only way to avoid the evil of war.

• Hobbes 
• Locke

Tabula rasa means ______.

• war
• peace
• contract
• blank slate

Who believed that a social contract between a government should be a two way street.

• Hobbes
• Locke

How does a baby "fill" their tabula rasa or blank slate? 

• using the 5 senses and experience
• going to war and winning
• only using their 5 senses
• moving from place to place in hopes of learning