I did not realize these ideas yet they don’t really contribute to progress in thinking.
To me, Hobbes was the founder of saying that life is short harsh and brutish and therefore we must give our power over to a “sovereign” or government so we can make society more fair and the biggest brute will not get all the good food and women. His sovereign was a dictator in the Leviathan, his most famous work.
I like Locke a lot (his “Two Treatises on Government” is the only leather bound legal book I kept when I downsized). I view him as the original founder of advocating private property ownership as a foundational element of having a fair society.
Of course I studied these guys in a philosophy of law class in 1983 and I rather favor HLA Hart and belief as he does that hard cases can make for bad law.
Thanks for thinking about thinking.