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Gordon Daniels Politics A: Analysing Theories of the State and Individual Hobbes and Locke John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two political theorists and philosophers alive in the seventeenth century. Europe had seen the thirty years war that ended in 1648 and was followed by a period of civil wars and revolts in many countries. Most famously in England where a republic was declared and the king executed, war and revolution became a major concern of political theorists. Out of this period came John Locke's Treaties of Government 1689 and Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651. Two theories regarding the role of the state and individual that shared much the same theoretical methodology. The discussion of a hypothetical state of nature and the idea of a social contract in order to achieve a civil society, but despite this their views could not have been more diametrically opposed. John Locke would be considered a liberal...

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