Social Contract: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau (AP EURO)?
I have a chart and under each of those names I have to fill in the answer to these questions, does anyone understand this???
What is social contract?
Why do people enter social contract?
Who is the Social contract imposed upon?
What is the purpose of the social contract?
Who determines the social contract?
What is the role of the Soverieign?
PLEASE HELP I AM SO CONFUSED!!!
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1. it's the unspoken contract that exists amongst all of us. It means we hand over some of our rights to ensure civility.
2. See hobbes. Our natural state is 'nasty, brutish....', etc. Basically, if we didn't all agree to have things like governments in place then we'd have anarchy and things would get messy.
3. you and me.
4. maintain order. Principally it started around the right to property (Locke.) If we can't be secure in the ownership of our goods then society can't exist. We enter a social contract to ensure that our rights are protected.
5. we do. we limit the rights of those who maintain control. (at least in theory we do.)
6. to provide the level of protection demanded by those in the social contract
A few more worthwhile for your list: Jonathan Edwards J. G. Fichte Novalis Moses Mendelssohn G. C. Lichtenberg Friedrich Hoederlin Goethe