Abstract
When Locke develops his view of the state of nature, he keeps in mind the recents works of Thomas Hobbes. Nevertheless, the weight of the will of God in Locke’s theory makes his ‘state of nature’ less dangerous and lonely than Hobbes’s one. So, while the basis of the two systems are similar, the models of the commonwealths that arise from them are diametrically opposite: if Hobbes wants to defend the absolute power of the English Crown, Locke supports the parliamentary principle of the dawning Whig party. Keywords: state of nature, natural law, liberty, equality.
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