ABSTRACT
This chapter chiefly examines Hobbes and Locke’s theoretical formulation of the relation between private property, freedom, and order. By highlighting the material and social context of seventeenth century England, in the light of underlining main dimensions of the Glorious Revolution, which Hobbes and Locke have witnessed, the chapter sheds light on how they theoretically constructed a state-society-individual formation while seeking a solution to the social and economic contradictions that they witnessed. Therefore, it will also be this chapter that underlines the main similarities and differences between these two contractarian theoreticians while considering the issue of how the relation between private property, freedom, and order should be made in both economic and political spheres on the eve of agrarian capitalism.
