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    The Social Contract The three philosophers‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were three key thinkers of political philosophy. The three men helped develop the social contract theory into what it is in this modern day and age. The social contract theory was the creation of Hobbes who created the idea of a social contract theory‚ which Locke and Rousseau built upon. Their ideas of the social contract were often influenced by the era in which they lived and social issues that

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    Both Rousseau and Hobbes talked about state of nature but their understanding of state of nature and the first living of humanity is quite different from each other. Their views are similar in some points but mostly they contrast with each other. These differences in their thoughts are mainly because of their understanding of human nature and also their view of man. For Hobbesstate of nature is a state of war and because of this‚ every individual are against each other and because of their basic

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    the inability of the state government to control the rapid rise of crime‚ nor extend aid to those citizens unable to afford signifies a break in the social contract. The legitimacy of the sovereign for Hobbes remains‚ “as long as and no longer than the power lasts by which he is able to protect them‚” (Hobbes 298) suggesting that the philosopher would agree that the Mexican Government’s inability to defend their underprivileged citizens warrants a break in the social contract‚ allowing individuals

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    take peoples freedom‚ the more they try to contain people like animals in a cage. The social contract and state of nature are two concepts that show how the government was created and how they make their rules in order for their people to be safe while still having freedom to do as they desire. A world that has not been introduced to civilization is a world that is in a wild primitive state. This world is a state of equality‚ where all powers of a human being is the same and no one has more than

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    that they rejected his divine right to rule and believed that he could only rule through consent. The concept of Social Contract‚ which was introduced to the people of France by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762‚ fostered this idea that prompted the people to take action to have more participation in matters of affairs of the state. This paper researches those concepts of Social Contract and investigates how it influenced the Revolution. Thomas

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    Rousseau: The Social Contract In Book I of the Social ContractRousseau suggests that towards a certain stage in the state of nature‚ people feel the need to bind themselves to one another. Individuals bind themselves to a larger community and form a social contract. Rousseau’s main argument in Book I is that the community that is formed by the gathering of individuals is not simply an aggregation of the interests of all the individuals that form it. It is a distinct entity –in a way‚ a distinct

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    Topic: Compare the portrayals of the state of nature by Hobbes and Rousseau and how these portrayals are reflected in their political theories. Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were philosophers of the mid 17th and mid 18th centuries respectively and proposed two political theories - in “Leviathan” (Hobbes‚ 1651)‚ “The Second Discourse” (Rousseau‚ 1755) and the “Social Contract” (Rousseau‚ 1762) - that were very different but that once analysed‚ could be argued to have common characteristics

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    Jamal Hamilton 3/4/13 Explanatory Essay Explanatory Essay #5 In the Social ContractRousseau describes some rules of administration in the civil order in which I feel Rousseau distributes some solid effective prescription on how to deal with the emergence and prevalence of social disorder that he laid out in the Discourse. The main point from the Discourse that’s in the Social Contract which are Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains. the Sovereign‚ having no force other than the legislative

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    Hobbes and the Hypothetical Contract In dealing with the problem with political authority Thomas Hobbes proposes that state’s derive their power from a hypothetical social contract that is made between a government and its citizens. It attempts to solve the problem with political legitimacy and political obligation; the right to rule and the reason citizens obey those in power. Hobbes believes that the only way to get out of a wild and unjust “state of nature” is to collectively give up some of

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    Michaelmas Essay 1 Charlotte Yeldon Words 1‚997. Is the aim of the social contract to establish freedom‚ equality or merely ‘peace’? How far is it successful‚ and at what cost? (Hobbes‚ Locke‚ Rousseau) The Social Contract is a theory that originated during the Enlightenment‚ which addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented‚ either explicitly

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