John Locke Hobbs Compare And Contrast

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Locke's and hobbs compare and contrast.
Here are some compares and contrasts about john locke and thomas hobbs. First thing we are going to be talking about is the thing that are alike. So let's see what we can find. Ok so here is what i found to compare John Locke and Thomas Hobbs. Both went to christ church, oxford. Both locke's and hobb`s both died in the U.K, they both was an english philosopher, they was both political, they both worked with human minds, they both believed about the human natural. Some stuff they have different is lockes was born in august 29, 1632 and hobbs was born in april 5, 1588, most important work that john lockes has done is the essay he make called Concerning Human Understanding. Thomas Hobbs vision of the world is strikingly original
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Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 Locke was able to return to England. Hobbs gained a reputation in many fildes. Locke engaged in a number of controversies during his life, including a notable one with Jonas Proast over toleration. Although he had little appreciation for the traditional scholastic philosophy he learned there, Locke was successful as a student and after completing his undergraduate degree he held a series of administrative and academic posts in the college. Machiavelli appears as the first modern political thinker, because like Hobbes he was no longer prepared to talk about politics in terms set by religious faith (indeed, he was still more offensive than Hobbes to many orthodox believers), instead, he looked upon politics as a secular discipline divorced from theology. Locke's initially stayed in London but soon moved to the home of Francis and Damaris Masham in the small village of Oates, Essex. This meant that Hobbes entered circles where the activities of the King, of Members of Parliament, and of other wealthy landowners were known and discussed, and indeed influenced. He published both the Essay and the Two Treatises