Given below are to statements
Statement-I : Treatise of Locke is a gun with two barrels, one of which is directed against Filmer and other against Hobbes.
Statement - II: It is true that Locke fully realized that for the full establishment of his new theory of state and obligation he must refute both Filmer and Hobbes.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from options given below:

Correct option is A

Both Statement I and Statement II are correct. John Locke's political philosophy, especially as expressed in his "Two Treatises of Government," can indeed be seen as a response to the arguments of both Sir Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes. Filmer's defense of the divine right of kings and Hobbes's authoritarian Leviathan represented contrasting visions of absolute monarchy and social contract theory, respectively. Locke's work aimed to refute Filmer's justification of unquestioned monarchy and Hobbes's bleak view of human nature and the necessity of an absolute sovereign to prevent the state of nature, which Hobbes described as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Locke's theory posited a more optimistic view of human nature and advocated for a government based on the consent of the governed, with the primary role of protecting natural rights, including life, liberty, and property. Thus, Locke's philosophical enterprise can metaphorically be seen as a "gun with two barrels," targeting the foundational premises of both Filmer and Hobbes to establish his own theories of political obligation and the state.