John Locke vs Thomas Hobbes

People are basically selfish and evil.

• Hobbes
• Locke

In a state of nature, there will be total chaos, violence and eventual death.

• Hobbes
• Locke

People are basically good.

• Hobbes
• Locke

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and property.

• Hobbes
• Locke

He wrote a book called 'The Leviathan.'

• Hobbes
• Locke

In a social contract, people agree to obey government as long as government is protecting their freedoms.

• Hobbes
• Locke

People never have a right to rebel against government.

• Hobbes
• Locke

In a social contract, people must give up ALL their freedoms.

• Hobbes
• Locke

People have a right and a duty to rebel against government if it is not protecting their basic freedoms.

• Hobbes
• Locke

Thomas Hobbes wrote in _, his best-known book on political philosophy, that life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

• Discourses on Livy

• Leviathan

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Prince