In the time from 1629 – 1640 the English king Charles I. Later on his travels he came also in contact with René Descartes, Pierre Gassendi and Marin Mersenne. As he went with his students on the Grand Tour (a nearly mandatory tour for the noblemen, through Europe and the promised land4) he met Galileo Galilei. There he translated some writings of Bacon into Latin. For a short time, he was the private secretary of Francis Bacon. This would give him later opportunities to get into contact with leading politicians and philospohers. After his bachelor, he got hired by the Cavendish’s as a house teacher. In the same age, he translated Euripides’ “Medea” from Greek into Latin. As he was fourteen, he started to study at the Oxford university.

There he got thought in classical languages. In the age of eight he started visiting a private school.

He started to write and read with four years, the people called him child prodigy. It was the year 1588, when a pastor’s wife gave birth to a little boy, later known as Thomas Hobbes1. Thomas Hobbes curriculum vitaeĪbbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten Maybe this biography will give us a better understanding about these two political philosophers. In Addition, I write a short biography to each of them. I’ll work out some points in which these two theories differ and take a look where they are realized nowadays or where they were realized in history. Where were Hobbes’ and Locke’s ideas in history realized? Where are Hobbes’ and Locke’s ideas in the presence realized? How do the social contract theories in “Leviathan” and “Two Treatise of Government” differ? Regarding the social contract theories, I would like to answer the following questions. In the age of enlightenment, there were again several people such as Hobbes, Locke or Rousseau writing about the social contract32,1,11. Already in the antiquity, Epicure, Lucretius and Cicero were writing about the theory of the social contract32. The social contract is a theory which should describe the relationship between a government and the individual32. In my first scientific paper, I’m going to compare John Locke’s and Thomas Hobbes’ different ideas about the social contract.

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