Question 1: What is Hobbes's explanation for the claim that a contract is binding even if one enters the contract under threat of violence?
Question 2: What would Hobbes and Locke agree is the defining characteristic of a State of Nature? What do their views have in common, that lead them to agree on this point?
Question 3: Hobbes writes that in the State of Nature,"nothing can be unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place." What does he mean by this? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?