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Jun 17, 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.
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Jun 17, 2024 · Social contract - Rousseau, Theory, Agreement: Rousseau, in Discours sur l’origine de l’inegalité (1755; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality), held that in the state of nature humans were solitary but also healthy, happy, good, and free. What Rousseau called “nascent societies” were formed when human began to live together as families and neighbours; that development, however, gave ...
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6 days ago · Hobbes’s Leviathan influenced not only his famous successors who adopted the social-contract framework—including John Locke (1632–1704), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)—but also less directly those theorists who connected moral and political decision making in rational human beings to considerations of ...
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6 days ago · Locke's political theory was founded upon that of social contract. Unlike Thomas Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature is characterised by reason and tolerance. Like Hobbes, however, Locke believed that human nature allows people to be selfish. This is apparent with the introduction of currency.
1 day ago · The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the ...
2 days ago · Self defense. Self-determination of people. Sexuality. Speech. Water and sanitation. v. t. e. Human rights are moral principles or norms [1] for standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in substantive law, municipal and international law. [2]
5 days ago · A majority of Orange County supervisors decided against renewing a contract with Groundswell, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit that supports the work of the O.C. Human Relations Commission.. The ...
