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Download Solution PDFWho is the pioneer of the Social Contract Theory?
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Key Points.
- Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
- The theory was pioneered by Thomas Hobbes.
- The idea of social contract theory was established by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds on an influential formulation of social contract theory.
- All of them had different interpretations but the basic idea was the same.
- The theory states that people live in a society with an agreement that establishes the moral and political rules of behavior.
- Societies are the result of compromises and social contracts that decide how the people and governments interact with each other.
- Social contracts can be rules, laws, agreements or also raising hands during class to speak.
- Social contracts provide a valuable framework for harmony in societies.
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