Social Contract Theory
Select one of these three philosophers (Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes) and write a 2 page paper in which you analyze the significant ways in which their ideas differ from those at work in modern democracies. What could we gain from following their ideas more closely, and what might be dangerous if we did so?
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Social contract theory is the when people are dependent on a contract to control their morals as well as their political obligations which form the basis of the society that the people live in, this theory is as old as philosophy. Rousseau explained his theory of social contract in two ways. First is through his essay Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men and the second is the normative contract…
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