John Locke · Politics
Why your rights come before any government, and what makes power legitimate - Locke’s overturning of the divine right of kings.
You learned that Locke grounds government in natural rights and consent. Hobbes started from the same idea of a state of nature but reached the opposite conclusion. State Hobbes’s view, then explain why he reached it.
Leads to Thomas Hobbes.
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