Abstract

When Locke develops his view of the state of nature, he keepsin mind the recents works of Thomas Hobbes. Nevertheless, theweight of the will of God in Locke’s theory makes his ‘state ofnature’ less dangerous and lonely than Hobbes’s one. So, whilethe basis of the two systems are similar, the models of the commonwealths that arise from them are diametrically opposite:if Hobbes wants to defend the absolute power of the EnglishCrown, Locke supports the parliamentary principle of the dawningWhig party