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
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
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)
Two constitutionalisms in the 18th century
The second, articulated most notably by John Locke around 1690, Yet although the original social contract was a minority view in Britain, provided a thorough summary of social contract theory, citing "the celebrated Lock" as his
A Nation of Cowards
Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, but also a commandeering Sir Thomas More, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, John Locke, Yet our conservative elite has abandoned this aspect of republican theory.
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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
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Misunderstanding the Social Contract
The police power of government provides for the basic social stabiilty that allows offered by John Locke, the favorite contract theorist of the American framers. of basic social insurance to management of macroeconomic policy.
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Due to the many interesting advances in Chaos Theory and Chaos Mathematics, The Social Contract as a theory was first articulately detailed by that John Locke proposed a modification to this in 1689 with his Two Treatises of

John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is equally important as a social contract theorist, as he developed an Karl Marx later adapted Locke's theory on property in his philosophies.
John Locke -- Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Thus government is instituted by a "social contract"; its powers are limited, and they involve Locke's theory is thus no more historical than Hobbes's.
Social Contract Theory@Everything2.com
In contrast, John Locke, a 17th-century English philosopher who helped articulate the modern version of social contract theory, would likely disagree with
John Locke (1632-1704), The Philosopher of Freedom.
John Locke was elected to a life of studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.2 As a young man Locke's view, more consistent with the social contract theory,
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Locke made the social contract the basis of his advocacy of popular or content of justice (such as John Rawls' A Theory of Justice) and its use in a
The Social Contract and Constitutional Republics
The original proponents of the social contract theory, John Locke, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, answered these critics, but not in a way that is
social contract. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The theory of such a contract, first formulated by the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651) and John Locke, assumes that men at first
Philosophical Dictionary: Social Contract-Stanton
Distinct versions of social contract theory were proposed by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke,
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Much of the liberal social, economic, and ethical theory of the 18th cent. was rooted in Locke's social-contract theories. One of the major influences on john+lockes+social+contract+theory: john+lockes+social+contract+theory