PHIL 1620 Lecture 5: PHIL1620 LECTURE 5 JANUARY 23
8 Feb 2018
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Hobbes is considered to be elaborating one version of social contract theory. In general, social contract theorists propose that the relationships between the individual and society are governed as an exchange of rights and obligations. 1) the individual gives up some of their rights. 2) in return, society is obligated to provide some guarantees for the individual. 3) in the case go hobbes, the individual gives up some rights in order to receive security from the sovereign. For hobbes, the individual gives up some rights in order to receive security from the sovereign. He argues, that before society, an individual lives in the state of nature. Without a power able to over-awe them all individuals live in a condition of war: and such a warren, as is of every man, against every man (88) The problem of the state of nature: equality. Humans are by nature equal in faculties of the body and of the mind.
