Similarities Between John Locke And Thomas Hobbes

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John Locke and Thomas Hobbe's' views on humanity were both very different resulting in their two very different viewpoints on government. The time period of The Enlightenment first began in the mid seventeen hundreds. The Enlightenment happened in Europe right in the center of France. The Enlightenment was the time period in our history when things like "The scientific method" were created to question things such as nature and the church. Philosophers like John Locke and Thomas Hobbes' used things like this to question things like society, humanity, and government. They used things like that to create their own theories and viewpoints on humanity making their two viewpoints on government very different from one another. John Locke believed