Hobbes and Locke

Match the following

• Social Contract (Locke's View)

• People agree to give over some of their freedoms in exchange for government protection

• Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and Property

• Locke's idea of a 

  State of Nature

• Everyone has a right to everything so people are always at war to get what they want

• Thomas Hobbes

• No rules or people in charge to help the people protect their natural rights

• Hobbes's idea of a 

  State of Nature

• Thought people were naturally selfish and quick to fight. He believed in a strong powerful leader.

Answer explanation

Match the following:

• Blank Slate Theory

• People are born tabula rasa and learn from their own experiences who help shape them

• Locke's idea of a 

  State of Nature

• No rules or people in charge to help the people protect their natural rights

• Leviathan

• Book written by Hobbes that explains his belief in a strong sovereign leader with total power

• John Locke

• People can grow and learn from their mistakes and can govern themselves.

According to John Locke, people are born with three natural rights which are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

• True

• False

Thomas Hobbes believed that the only effective leader a country could have needed to have absolute power

• True

• False

Which of the following people believed that if the government did not uphold your natural rights you could overthrow them?

• Locke

• Hobbes

Which one of these people believed that people cannot be left to govern themselves because it would result in war?

• Locke

• Hobbes

Which U.S. founding father was inspired by John Locke? (listed in reading)

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

Prompt: After reading your worksheet, use what you have learned about Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and DRAW a picture that represents how a State of Nature would look under each.

Prompt: BEFORE completing make sure you read your worksheet about Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. 

 Next, DRAW a picture that represents how a social contract works according to both John Locke 

and Thomas Hobbes.

Prompt: BEFORE completing make sure you read your worksheet about Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the very different views they had about government.

Next, DRAW a picture that represents how GOVERNMENT works according to both John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.