2. DO NOW
Write a few sentences (3-4) on the quote by Calvin in the previous cartoon:
Do you think human nature is good or evil? Why?

3. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
The Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes
and
John Locke

4. Hobbes?
Or Locke?

5. State of Nature Locke Good Order
Born with natural rights and then govt. limits rights
Government established to protect rights
Hobbes
Evil
Chaos
Freedom exists until govt. is agreed to and then you get rights
Government established to create order

6. What to do? Create a Social Contract
The implied agreement by which people group together to form government

7. John Locke Purpose of government
to protect natural rights- life, liberty, and property
Natural right to rebel against tyranny
Spokesman for revolution and representative govt.(consent of governed)
Wrote Second Treatise on Government (1689)

9. Thomas Hobbes Supported absolute power of monarch/king
Ideal state is that with the greatest security
Laws created by humans to protect themselves
Social contract--king is king and subjects are subjects
Wrote Leviathan

10. Examples in History- Hobbes
Absolute Monarchy
Nicholas II of Russia
Louis XIV of France – the Sun King

11. Examples in History- Locke
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
French Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

12. Multiple Choice Question
One contribution that John Locke made to Enlightenment philosophy was the idea that
(1) absolute monarchies should continue
(2) the punishment should fit the crime
(3) individual rights should be denied
(4) governments should be based on the consent of the people

13. With a partner
Create a multiple choice question you might find on a Regents Exam.