The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess it created. He set fourth his political philosophy in a book called Leviathan, published in 1651. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings in the state of nature, where life is nasty, brutish, and ....

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