... and unquestionably from God. Now without a governing organised religion, an unrestrained basis to form society was constructed. The foundation of society began with mans original state of nature. Both Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and The Second Treatise by John Locke express similar train of thought regarding the state of war, state of nature, and the rights of man. The "state of nature" essentially ... Locke's views it as a positive aspect of humankind, "if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies," (Hobbes 1983 p.82). Thomas Hobbe...

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