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 nder that conduxciton the only right people have is the right to preserve themselves. Anybody will do anything they can top proptect 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 wiull be the hingle toi sign on the contract . H eis encouraged in these thoughts given the time he eas livingh in. The King was tried by a military court and the stahe was being rld by Cromwell and a lot of preope were saying bthat 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 abslututeist 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
All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains Rousseau
he thinks their is a conflect becuase your freedom and obeyence to the law. We wanted to be free - guifed by our will - we will lose it buit how can we regain it Civil Freedom - A soecirty where they are under their own will - people legislate together to enshrine their freedoms
