Compare And Contrast Hobbes Locke And Wollstonecraft

Since there were more discoveries in science, European thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Wollstonecraft had huge impacts on the government and human life. They each had their separate ways of thinking and perusing things. Human life was obviously the problem and each of them had different perspectives on dealing with the issue. Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher and believed that people were self-centered. He believed that everyone should be treated equal and that no one man is better than anyone else. He also had no trust in people to even make their own decisions. He liked the rule of a king because he felt only one person should have the great authority of being in charge. He didn’t have confidence in people being in charge of themselves. He wanted peace within the people and he believed that achieving that goal would be through a King or a Queen and no democracy.
He had a different perspective on the same issue. He believed that every man can reason. He believed the opposite of Hobbes. He wanted the King’s power to be limited and the same for the Monarch’s. He thought that people should be able to govern their selves without the King or Queen. He also believed people should be looked at as equal and the same. He was in favor of a monarchy and was not in favor of Divine Right. He wanted to protect the right of life, the right of freedom, and the right to property. He felt strongly about these rights. He wrote many things down, mostly about how the MEN are equal and making a new government would be the best for the