john locke and thomas hobbes

John Locke was born in 1632 in Somersetshire , in England. In this Puritan family, his father was a lawyer and a minor landowner and a participant in the Civil War on the side of the Parliament party. In 1646 he was hired in the Westminster School and in 1652, he entered the college of Christ Church at Oxford University, where he studied Greek, philosophy, rhetoric, chemistry, meteorology and theology under the direction of a high Puritan leader, John Owen. But it was medicine that he was most attracted to as a possibility of a life work. Through his studies of medicine, he became friends with Robert Boyle , one new English scientists of the Academy. In 1656 he received his ‘B.A.’ degree from Oxford, then his ‘Master's degree’. It was during this time that he began to put his thoughts on subjects like: ‘Treatise on Civil Magistrates’ (1660), ‘Essays on the Law of Nature’ (1663), and ...