Locke Discussion Questions… 1. What was John Locke’s educational and political background? How did his background reflect his Enlightenment ideas? 2. Although Locke in Two Treaties of Government agreed with Hobbes about the necessity of a contract in a brutish state of nature, what were his disagreements regarding man’s natural rights? How did he view the power of the king? 3. What were Locke’s view on property and its relationship to government? 4. Explain his ideas about representative government.