The State of Nature and the State of War According to ...

John Locke’s view of the State of Nature and the State of War differs greatly from Hobbes. Locke defined the State of Nature simply as a state of man in which there is no “common power or government” (DeHart, Lecture). In this state, Locke believed that there existed a real law of nature that bound all men and that liberty was simply having the freedom to live as you wish as long as it ... ................
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