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Study Of Thomas Hobbes’s Social Contract With John Locke’s Social Contract by cbravo5: 10:17pm On Jul 26, 2018 |
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Across the century, the social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, has been used and employed by many philosophers. Thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. John Rawls and Jeremy Bentham have employed it in different ways. This implies that the way the social contract theory is understood differs, at least insignificantly, from one philosopher to the other. Theories of social contract differed according to their aims; some were fashioned to justify the power of the sovereign; some to safeguard the individual from oppression by an all-powerful sovereign. Study Of Thomas Hobbes’s Social Contract With John Locke’s Social Contract In Their Political Philosophy |
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