Thomas Hobbes and John Locke use the thought experiment of the state of nature to inform and justify their ideas about how government and the state should be designed. Although these thought experiments are not meant to be literal accounts of how prehistoric humans actually live, they are meant to accurately reflect something about human nature and what life would be like among people with no government or state. Imagine that Hobbes and Locke had the knowledge that we have concerning how actual hunter-gatherer societies lived in communities without governments (in addition to all of the knowledge that they actually possessed). Analyze how these philosophers ideas about government or the state would likely have been different based on this knowledge of what actual state of nature-like societies (meaning stateless societies) were like:make a clear and specific argument answering the
following question:
If these two philosophers had access to our current knowledge
concerning the lives of hunter-gatherer societies, which one of them would likely have changed their recommendations the most, and why?
This essay should not be merely descriptive. It should make a clearly stated argument. Answer the above questions in the form of a clear and specific thesis/argument, and use evidence drawn from course readings (and from other class sources) and references to specific examples from class to back up your argument.
(I attached an excerpt for Locke I wanted to use in the essay but I would like more sources used, preferably 3-4 sources per person)
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