State of Nature

Hobbes and Locke are two English Philosophers who have different ideas about what is natural when it comes to government. Hobbes says that a government is a covenant, an agreement, which should be legally binding, and that a government is set in place to create justice when those binding agreements are not met. He says that because of these "mutual agreements" societies are able to operate. Locke on the other hand says that in order for society to work, "natural law" is reason and rationality. Human instinct is to assist another human out of danger, after self-preservation of course. In other words, do not deprive someone of what they need to live.