http://www.tomrichey.net This PowerPoint presentation was made to accompany a lecture on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in both European History and American Government courses. Hobbes' Leviathan and Locke's Two Treatises of Government are both discussed. Hobbes and Locke are compared and contrasted with a graphic organizer at the end of the presentation. Visit my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/tomforamerica) to see the lecture that goes with these slides!

3. Jacques
Thomas
John
BOSSUET
HOBBES
LOCKE
Divine Right
ABSOLUTISM
Philosophical
ABSOLUTISM
Philosophical & Biblical
CONSTITUTIONALISM

4. Jacques
Thomas
John
BOSSUET
HOBBES
LOCKE
Divine Right
ABSOLUTISM
Philosophical
ABSOLUTISM
Philosophical & Biblical
CONSTITUTIONALISM

6. 1. What is the origin of government?
2. How much authority should the
state have over the individual?

7. THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan (1651)
Defense of Philosophical
Absolutism

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11. STATE OF W
AR

12. STATE OF W
AR

13. S
P
N
B
S

14. S
P
N
B
S

15. LEVIATHAN

16. CLICK to Read

17. BEHOLD, THE HOPE OF HIM IS IN V
AIN:
SHALL NOT ONE BE CAST DOWN
EVEN AT THE SIGHT OF HIM?
NONE IS SO FIERCE THAT DARE STIR HIM UP:
WHO THEN IS ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ME?

18. OUT OF HIS MOUTH GO BURNING
LAMPS, AND SPARKS OF FIRE LEAP OUT.
OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS GOETH SMOKE, AS
OUT OF A SEETHING POT OR CALDRON.

19. HIS HEART IS AS FIRM
AS A STONE…

20. A ruler should be powerful
enough to be beyond challenge.

24. TRUST?
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25. Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the midst of the English Civil War

26. JOHN LOCKE
Tw o Treatises
of Government (1689)
Defense of Constitutionalism

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29. LIFE
LIBERTY
PROPERTY

31. GLORIOUS
AND [ALMOST] BLOODLESS
REVOLUTION

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33. Question
The Original State of
Humankind
Divine Right or
Social Contract?
HOBBES
LOCKE
State of NATURE
SOCIAL Contract
COMPARE (How are they similar?)
Agree?

34. Question
WHY Government?
Where does sovereignty
reside?
Can a government’s
power be limited?
Right of
REVOLUTION?
HOBBES
LOCKE
To Protect us
FROM OURSELVES
To Protect
NATURAL RIGHTS
The MONARCH
The PEOPLE
NO
NO
YES
YES
CONTRAST (How do they differ?)
Agree?