Hobbes and Locke; the State of Nature and Sovereignty John Locke and Thomas Hobbes both wrote on many of the same issues of social philosophy yet due to a basic different philosophical conception of the world, they held very different opinions. Hobbes's view of the man's place in the natural world is famously described in Chapter 13 of Leviathan; " .continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."" ... In short, man in nature was in a perpetual state of war thought Hobbes. ... Locke clearly delineates the b...

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