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   Who invented social contract theory?

   • Although similar ideas can be traced to the Greek Sophists, social-contract theories had their greatest currency in the 17th and 18th centuries and are associated with the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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   What was Locke's philosophy?

   • For a more general introduction to Locke’s history and background, the argument of the Two Treatises, and the Letter Concerning Toleration, see , , and , respectively, of the main entry on in this encyclopedia. The present entry focuses on eight central concepts in Locke’s political philosophy. 1. Natural Law and Natural Rights 2. State of Nature

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   What did John Locke say about government?

   • The English philosopher John Locke published Two Treatises on Government in 1689. Locke here presented the idea that in the state of nature, humans were capable of working together by following the universal law that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions" (quoted in Popkin, 77).

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   What is social contract theory?

   • Theorizing from within the emerging tradition of care ethics, feminist philosophers such as Baier and Held argue that social contract theory fails as an adequate account of our moral or political obligations. Social contract theory, in general, only goes so far as to delineate our rights and obligations.

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   Nov 9, 2005 · John Locke defined political power as “a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less Penalties” ( Two Treatises 2.3). Locke’s theory of punishment is thus central to his view of politics and part of what he considered innovative about his political philosophy.

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   May 6, 2024 · Learn about the social-contract theory in political philosophy, which explains the origin and nature of government and society. Compare the views of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau on the state of nature, consent, and rights.

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   An overview of the history and main proponents of social contract theory, which explains moral and political obligations as dependent on a contract among persons. John Locke is one of the best known defenders of this view, after Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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   Apr 29, 2024 · In political theory, or political philosophy, John Locke refuted the theory of the divine right of kings and argued that all persons are endowed with natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that rulers who fail to protect those rights may be removed by the people, by force if necessary.

   • John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist who was born in 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, and died in 1704 in High Laver, E...
   • John Locke’s most famous works are An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in which he developed his theory of ideas and his account of the...
   • In epistemology (the philosophical theory of knowledge), John Locke argued against the existence of innate ideas (ideas present in the mind natural...
   • John Locke’s philosophy inspired and reflected Enlightenment values in its recognition of the rights and equality of individuals, its criticism of...
   • John Locke’s political theory directly influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence in its assertion of natural individual rights and its ground...

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   Feb 2, 2024 · Locke's Social Contract. The English philosopher John Locke published Two Treatises on Government in 1689. Locke here presented the idea that in the state of nature, humans were capable of working together by following the universal law that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions" (quoted in Popkin, 77).

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   This doctrine much influenced the founders of the United States and the early French Revolutionaries. Political philosophy - Locke, Natural Rights, Social Contract: It was John Locke, politically the most influential English philosopher, who further developed this doctrine. His Two Treatises of Government (1690) were written to justify the ...