PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Back in the mid-1600s, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued that the purpose of government is to maintain order. Without government, Hobbes argued, humans would exist in what he called a “state of nature” where life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.

Detailed explanation-2: -The purpose of government, Locke wrote, is to secure and protect the God-given inalienable natural rights of the people. For their part, the people must obey the laws of their rulers.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Hobbes & Locke, what is the purpose of government? Make us happy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both Hobbes and Locke supported the theory of social contract which maintains that the governments and political powers do not derive from God, and the rulers do not originate from divine power, but are assigned by people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hobbes also considers humans to be naturally vainglorious and so seek to dominate others and demand their respect. The natural condition of mankind, according to Hobbes, is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” because individuals are in a “war of all against all” (L 186).