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    The Social Contract

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    In The Social Contract, people from the state of nature come together to form a contract, which is called a social contract. The social contract describes how people and the government could work together in order to benefit everyone. The people living in this state of nature must come into an agreement in order to preserve their freedom. Although they must surrender some of their liberties, the conditions of the contract are equal for everyone and they will all want to make the contract as easy

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    The Social Contract

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    In The Social Contract, Jean- Jacque Rousseau theorized the best way to establish a political community in the face of social problems. He believed that legitimate political authority comes from a social contract agreed upon by all citizens for their mutual preservation. Everyone forfeits the same amount of rights and has the same duties in order to establish freedom and to create equality under the law. While modern day laws presumably work to ensure liberty and equality, there is “a pervasive

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    Social Contract

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    Yes & No: An agreement a pond the Social Contract Lets began this essay with a little review from what we learned from Philosophy. The Social Contract is an model agreement upon members in a certain society which they live by. For an example is laws. If we didn’t have any laws, the world would be all chaos. So we all “sign” a social contract that we will obey the law. Ones who do not obey the law will get punished by the government weather it’s a warning or jail time, you will get punished. Now

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    American Social Contract

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    The Fundamental Ideas That Help Compose American Social Contract: Two fundamental ideas that, according to my estimation, are the major founding blocks in the composition and structure of American Social Contract are: 1. Popular sovereignty 2. Maintenance of check and balances. While learning about the American social contract, the point that helped me choose Popular Sovereignty as the first fundamental idea of American social contract is the legit concern of the protection of the rights and improvising

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    What is the Function of a Social Contract? Philosophers have been concerned with the theories of a social contract for thousands of years. Plato mentions the concept in Crito and in Republic. These theories have stemmed from the concept of justice and for our society to be just. I will look at the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and finally with John Rawls after which a overall view into the function of a social contract can be derived as well as any problems with the theory(s)

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    The Social Contract is an agreement by a group of people that enter for mutual benefit between individuals. Similar to Locke’s social contract, Rousseau wanted his citizens to have rights, liberty, freedom and equality. This quote from Rousseau book “The Social Contract” summarizes his belief on human nature, “In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee

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    Essay Social Contract

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    The Social Contract-      Rousseau's principal aim in writing The Social Contract is to determine how freedom may be possible in civil society, and we might do well to pause briefly and understand what he means by "freedom." In the state of nature we enjoy the physical freedom of having no restraints on our behavior. By entering into the social contract, we place restraints on our behavior, which make it possible to live in a community. By giving up our physical

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    Social Contract Research

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    could be argued that those inclined to have aggressive and anti-social behaviour are not rational beings. With “aggressive behaviour”, violent inclination, and detached nature, those with the warrior gene may not be able to make rational decisions (Powledge, 2016). With this conclusion, the rationality of those with the warrior gene is questionable and therefore unfit to accept the conditions of the social contract. The social contract wholly depends on the compliance of the people. Not to mention

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    A Critique of the Social Contract According To John Locke Introduction John Locke embedded his political ideas in the form of two treatises popularly known as Two Treatises on Civil Government that he authored in 1690. In the first treatise, Locke disagrees with the political and social philosophy of Robert Filmer in his work known as Patriacha, authored in 1654. The second treatise contains Locke’s viewpoint on political philosophy where he expounds the origin, authority and the significance of

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    have rules and laws for huge crimes like murder or terrorism and once those crimes are committed, these who commit them are often punished fairly but on the contrary we have small punishments for breaking little and irrelevant rules. In The Social Contract written by eighteenth century philosopher Jean-Jacques

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