How and why do Hobbes and Locke using similar concepts of states of nature, natural law and contract come to different conclusions?

Seminar paper from the year 1997 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, London Metropolitan University, language: English, abstract: The fundamental differences between the political theories of Hobbes and Locke. Both Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) in his Leviathan and Locke (1623-1704), in his Two Treatises of Government, were among the very earliest historical political theorists to work out a ...