Blair and the death of society
Ignoring the royalist Hobbes (the interpretation of whose theories is, in any case, fraught with ambiguities), in the past, the concept of the social contract was generally advanced from below - the people giving away some aspect of
Affirmation of Diversity through Political Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), however, radically revised Hobbes’ social contract. He proposed that the people agreed to cede authority to some group in order to gain the benefits of community and safety. If those in power refused
Natural Right and History
Hence self-preservation became the basis for the social contract, and Locke argued self-preservation, in contrast to Hobbes, required limited government. It should do nothing which a rational creature would not give free consent.
Mon Dieu! Postscript on the social contract, and bagels
In my posting on why America is not an empire, I inexplicably forgot a fourth critical theorist of the social contract, Spinoza. How could I? He came after Hobbes and Descartes, and his influence on Locke's political and metaphysical
Just Because It's an Old Idea Doesn't Mean It's a Bad Idea
It has been often noted, indeed, that social contract theories relied on a specific anthropological conception of man as either "good" or "evil". Thomas Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) are the most
Amorality, Jewish Morality, and Israel
The foundation of modern legal and political philosophy is Thomas Hobbes’s idea of a social contract. Without social contracts in place, according to Hobbes, life ”is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Arendt on Hobbes
Hobbes’s Leviathan exposed the only political theory according to which the state is based not on some kind of constituting law - whether divine law, the law of nature, or the law of social contract - which determines the rights and
Legal Theory Lexicon 058: Contractarianism
One of these is the notion of the "social contract"--familiar from Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. But unless you were an undergraduate philosophy major or have some graduate work in philosophy, you may not be as familiar with some of the
A Nation of Cowards
Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, the liberal agenda and whose moral and social “re-education” is the object of liberal social policies. tending rather to support the view of Hobbes, Machiavelli,
Rousseau on solitude
Like Hobbes or Locke he beleived in a state of nature. canvass of works like the Social Contract and the Discourses on Inequality, a nightmare he hoped to do away with through a new social contract and organisation of society around

Phil. 1200 Notes #13: Hobbes, The Social Contract Theory To
The social contract theory, Hobbes’ version. Basic idea of the social contract theory:. A response to the ‘problem of political obligation’
SOCIAL CONTRACT: A CRITIQUE*
Part of the historical setting of Hobbes' version. of social contract doctrine is the decline of For Hobbes, the social contract is a simul-
JSTOR: Symposium Papers, Comments and an Abstract: Comments On
Comments On "Hobbes Social Contract" JEAN HAMPTON UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Gauthier wants to preserve a contract in Hobbes's social contract theory.
JSTOR: Symposium Papers, Comments and an Abstract: Hobbes's Social
In her new and important book, Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradi- tion, My concern is with the structure of Hobbes's social contract argument.
Amazon.com: Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition: Books: Jean
Amazon.com: Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition: Books: Jean E. Hampton by Jean E. Hampton.
Philosophical Dictionary: Social Contract-Stanton
Distinct versions of social contract theory were proposed by Hobbes, Locke, Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes,
social contract: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
Hobbes argued that the absolute power of the sovereign is justified by a hypothetical social contract in which the people agree to obey him in all matters
Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia
He forms peaceful societies by entering into a social contract. According to Hobbes, society is a population beneath an authority, to whom all individuals
Reading Guide for Beal and Hobbes: Social Contract
Reading Guide for Beal and Hobbes: Social Contract. One. Beal, pages 89-104. What is the hidden agenda of modernity? What is its relation to the chaos
thomas: social contract and the ethical anarchist
(it could be argued that the covenantal force of Hobbes's social contract ceases if the sovereign loses credible power; i ignore this here.) hobbes+social+contract: hobbes+social+contract