USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are naturally selfish and wicked and prone to fighting. He said that in order to escape a bleak life, people should give up their rights to a strong leader who would give them law and order. This is called the social contract.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hobbes believed that humans were naturally selfish, greedy, and cruel, while Locke contended that people were naturally reasonable and moral. You will be looking at accounts from both philosophers and having a civil conversation with your table about whether human nature is naturally good or evil.

Detailed explanation-3: -’ Just over a century later, Jean-Jacques Rousseau countered that human nature is essentially good, and that we could have lived peaceful and happy lives well before the development of anything like the modern state.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Hobbes believes that humans have no moral compass unless there are predetermined rules to say what actions are good or bad. There is no morality in the state of nature. There is no contract without an absolute power to enforce it. Therefore, justice only comes into existence when the sovereign is established.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hobbes thinks the state of nature is something we ought to avoid, at any cost except our own self-preservation (this being our “right of nature, ” as we saw above).