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belka [17]
2 years ago
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How do political philosophers define the terms "state of nature" and "social contract?" Please analyze and discuss the contrasti

ng Hobbean and Lockean views on the question of why people create and sustain social contracts.
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harkovskaia [24]2 years ago
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Most philosopher saw the social contract as an arrangement that let citizens leave the state of nature and enter civil society while the state of nature emerges when the social contract became a threat to the government.

<h3>What was Hobbes views on the topic?</h3>

The philosopher defines the state of nature as a situation whereby there were no enforceable criteria of right and wrong, that is, we all took for ourselves all that we could.

He also defined the social contract theory as a method of justifying political principles by an appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons

<h3>What was Lockean view on the topics?</h3>

This  philosopher defines the state of nature as the beginning of a process in which a state for a government is formed.

He also defined the social contract theory as a theory that creates a government through the consent of the people to be ruled by the majority.

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