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6 de may. de 2024 · Social contract, in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each. The most influential social-contract theorists were the 17th–18th century philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
An overview of the history and main proponents of social contract theory, which holds that moral and political obligations are based on a hypothetical agreement among persons. Learn about Socrates, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, Gauthier and their critics.
3 de mar. de 1996 · Social contract theories differ about the object of the contract. In the traditional contract theories of Hobbes and Locke, the contract was about the terms of political association. In particular, the problem was the grounds and limits of citizen’s obligation to obey the state.
Prominent 17th- and 18th-century theorists of the social contract and natural rights included Hugo de Groot (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel von Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) and Immanuel Kant (1797), each approaching the concept of political
Subject of Moral Worth. Social Contract Theory. Social contract theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior. Some people believe that if we live according to a social contract, we can live morally by our own choice and not because a divine being requires it.
3 de mar. de 1996 · Social contract theorists as diverse as Freeman and Jan Narveson (1988, 148) see the act of agreement as indicating what reasons we have. To Freeman the “role of unanimous collective agreement” is in showing “what we have reasons to do in our social and political relations” (2007, 19).
