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social institutions through which we will live together cooperatively. In the original position, behind the veil of ignorance, one is denied any particular knowledge of one’s circumstances, such as one’s gender, race, particular talents or ...
social theory, one might begin by noting that the widespread use of the term social in the nineteenth century owed much to the fame of The Social Contract. This work, however, is decidedly more a work of political than social theory. The so...
Hobbes is now broadly considered as one of a handful of really large political philosophers, whose masterwork Leviathan competitors in implication the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls. Hobbes is well ...
The Social Contract with the most famous words he ever wrote: “Men are born free, yet everywhere are in chains.” From this provocative opening, Rousseau goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the “chains” of civil society suppress the...
and uses philosophical arguments to argue his case. He also uses the ideas of force, right and freedom to support his argument. He feels we require a civil state, as opposed to living in the state of nature, as ‘it substitutes justice for ...
age of reason,” its many strains unified by a core commitment to the use of reason for the promotion of happiness via the amelioration and improvement of the practical conditions of human life. Discussion The advantage of this definition is...
the status of nature need in no way be aggressive. The image of archaic communism that Locke illustrates appears pleasant in many ways. In his analysis, the state of nature is one of independence to do as any person satisfies, but is not on...