Legal Theory Lexicon 058: Contractarianism
Classical Social Contract Theory The classical social contract tradition is most strongly associated with Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. There are very important differences between these thinkers, but I am got to
Two constitutionalisms in the 18th century
Wise was followed in 1744 by Elisha Williams, who also provided a thorough summary of social contract theory, citing "the celebrated Lock" as his source and echoing Locke's contention that government exists solely by the agreement of
Democratic Theory Seminar: on Ontario Citizens' Assembly
According to deliberative democratic theory, establishing such political deliberation will realize [x] Jean-JacquesRousseau, Social Contract, Book, III, chap. [xviii] John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapters 7-2, 18
Blair and the death of society
Does he even get what the “social contract” is all about? And not the right bit, either: this is Hobbes, not Locke. When contract theory began to advance was usually at time of crisis - during and after the English Civil War,
Just Because It's an Old Idea Doesn't Mean It's a Bad Idea
The "social contract", an old (good) idea, was turned into a bad idea in the The theory of the social contract is based on the assumption that all men live Thomas Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
Something tells me we’ll be here again:
John Locke, the Social Contract Theorist that our founding fathers turned to when writing the US Constitution, believed that every child is a product of their environment. He believed anybody could be molded into anything based on their
Christians and Legal Theory
You also need to consider social contract theory, as expressd by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, and as presented in a contemporary Kantian form by Rawls. Rawls' view is more prescriptive than descriptive, but in many ways it also decribes
Mon Dieu! Postscript on the social contract, and bagels
theorist of the social contract, Spinoza. How could I? He came after Hobbes and Descartes, and his influence on Locke's political and metaphysical theory is obvious. And from Locke to the American founders is but a short step .
A Nation of Cowards
Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all shared the Yet our conservative elite has abandoned this aspect of republican theory.
Locke - The Social Contract
Here John Locke proposes some abstractions which are unique to the zeitgeist. Locke accepts to a degree that we are in a Hobbessian State of War without Laws and Locke also points out that one has to be a master of his own life,

Social Contract Theory@Everything2.com
That's not to say that social contract theory as espoused by Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke were simply regurgitations of Clical thought.
1 Cedy MMW 5 Social Contract Theory Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Rousseau
Social Contract Theory. Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Rousseau. (Page references are to tex reproduced in the reader.) Natural state of equality/freedom
social contract. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The theory of such a contract, first formulated by the English philosophers Thomas Locke made the social contract the basis of his advocacy of ular
Consider Phlebas: Social Contract Theory: Locke And Hobbes
Social Contract Theory: Locke And Hobbes. Having written about Hume yesterday, I thought perhaps I might write a little about two of the theoris who are
US gov in violation of Locke's Social Contract Theory? CheapTalk
Ok, our constitution was written with John Locke's Social Contract Theory in mind, which states that governmen are created to protect the people,
Locke 2
Locke 2. The Social Contract Theory. Just as natural righ and natural law theory had a quite incredible fluorescence in the 17th and 18th century,
Locke: Government
John Locke's intellectual curiosity and social activism also led him to from this primitive state by entering into a social contract under which the
John Locke's social contract theoy
Locke's concept of a proper government and the relationship between the government and the people is also more consistent with a social contract theory than
John Locke (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Just as natural righ and natural law theory had a florescence in the 17th and 18th century, so did the social contract theory. Why is Locke a social
Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Social contract
Locke sees the contract in more of i traditional fictional sense. Implicit social contract theory presupposes i conclusion lockes+social+contract+theory: lockes+social+contract+theory