t on men, though in a different way he sees men as dependent on women. He suggests that the betterment of mankind is linked to heightening the differences between the sexes and thus with heightening their mutual dependence.
Locke turns to scripture for some of his ideas about women and refers to the words in Genesis where women are condemned for disobedience, though he finds that these words apply to men as well. Locke sees the inferior position of women in society as a reality and as having come about by legal enactment and not by divine law. Locke finds that women need not be subjugated, though neither does he see any reason why they must not be.
Hobbes does not differentiate between men and women as he notes the war-like condition of human beings in the state of nature and the control imposed on human beings by the social contract. He has a conception o
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