Social contract

The Social Contract is theory of rights

Grocious In the 16th Century he wrote that man has natural rights in order establish a political authority they have to give up some of those rights. Man are sovereign and under there own jurisdiction but they should not interfere with others

Tap root Plato

Hobbes - How society might emerge from a State of Nature. Hobbes is imagining that we have an unqualified there is no law under that condition the only right people have is the right to preserve themselves. Anybody will do anything they can top protect themselves, be competitive, glory and notoriety therefore life is brutish and short 0 will lad to war and lead to fear and this is the motivation to improve their situation and that will be the hinge toi sign on the contract . H eis encouraged in these thoughts given the time he eas living in. The King was tried by a military court and the stahe was being ruled by Cromwell and a lot of people were saying that they should not acquiesce to the new order

The Contract - He feels that eventually people will come together with the mutual desire for a new society. (the people agree) Their united body will be represented by a sovereign and they will hand all their power to them and in order to maintain he might need to use the sword\

Like Hobbes, Locke sees power in abstract term. He al;so sees men in the context of the state of nature. Where they is natural freedom and equality and men use use their natural capacity keep to a moral law and law based on reason backed by God.

The state of nature can degenerate and lead to conflict at which point man can decide to go in to Political Society by way of a social contract. Locke is against the divine right of kings and absolutist. .You can not give absolute power because they absolutist is put side the law. With Hobbes is irrevocable as long as he protect you for Locke it must maintain consent if the the people. Ultimately it brought you security

All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains Rousseau

he thinks their is a conflict because your freedom and obeying the law. We wanted to be free - guided by our will - we will lose it but how can we regain it Civil Freedom - A society where they are under their own will - people legislate together to enshrine their freedoms - a republican - a common cause - a general good. Become a higher self

Hobbes - Collapse of society Locke - Collaborative Rousseau - Man not naturally sociable, solitary creature, not aggressive

When Rousseau mentions Hobbes int is unfavorable - like a shepherd looking after his sheep and ultimately slaughtering them.

Also wrote Emile and ?? - How to educate a young man and make him authentic and prepare him for citizenship. For Rousseau the Social Contract it is process rather then an end.

Robespierre was an admirer of Rousseau but got him wrong - force a general will and purge those who didn't agree but for Rousseau it has been authentic almost organic. But there is a darker side to Rousseau thinking - That there should be no dissent and a degree of reeducation. Rousseau didn't believe Social Contract would work in France - it had gone too far

Hume was undercutting this abstract idea of natural laws. Consent is not the only basis for govt, People don't actively consent but doesn't mean they ate necessarily bad or illegitimate the important thing is how well they conduct the role of government itself. Forcing them to cirticitebs forcing them to give up their freedom awepid have bad consequences. For Hume the economic dimension was key to him.