Compare and contrast the views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on the idea of a social contract. What do they agree on? What do they disagree on?

Answer: The idea of the social contract for Locke is precisely to make the transition from the state of nature to the civil state, where through it, and regardless of the form of government, the properties and communities of internal and external conflicts would be preserved.

The social contract proposed by Locke does not resemble Hobbes's contract. For Hobbes the contract is a kind of submission pact where individuals submit to a third party (man or assembly). In Locke's contract, the social contract assumes the role of consent pact in which men agree to build civil society for the purpose of preserving and consolidating natural rights. The idea is that natural rights are based on a norm and the strength of the common represented by the decision-making center.