Hobbes and Locke

Match the following

• Thomas Hobbes

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

• Social Contract (Locke's View)

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

• 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

• Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and Property

• Hobbes's idea of a 

  State of Nature

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

Answer explanation

Match the following:

• Locke's idea of a 

  State of Nature

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

• John Locke

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

• Blank Slate Theory

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

• Leviathan

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

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.