Nature to civil society?

Question

How does Locke account for the transistion from the state of nature to civil society?

Answer 1

He doesn't. The idea of a state of nature was first postulated by Thomas Hobbes in "The Leviathan". Hobbes was writing after witnessing that violent breakdown of the existing social fabric, known as the English Civil War. For him, the state of nature possibly existed in the distant past, but not necessarily so. It may only be a hypothetical opposite to, and justification for, society. There's an adequate, but brief, explanation in wikipedia (if you like that kind of thing).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_nature