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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.
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
3 de mar. de 1996 · Social contract theorists as diverse as Samuel Freeman and Jan Narveson (1988, 148) see the act of agreement as indicating what reasons we have; agreement is a “test” or a heuristic (see §5). The “role of unanimous collective agreement” is in showing “what we have reasons to do in our social and political relations ...
1. General Features. The idea that a political constitution, or society itself, is grounded in a social contract among society’s members is a recurring feature of modern political thought. Since Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) many social and political theorists have regarded society as a cooperative undertaking for mutual benefit.
The more perceptive social-contract theorists, including Hobbes, invariably recognized that their concepts of the social contract and the state of nature were unhistorical and that they could be justified only as hypotheses useful for the clarification of timeless political problems. See also state of nature.
