A social contract is the agreement between citizens and government whereby citizens lend their power to politicians under the justification that politicians use this power for the collective good and to satisfy peoples needs. Hampton, J, (1986) (MORE DETAILS HERE). Due to human nature (according to hobbes) this would lead to an everyman for themselves style of living dominated by mankind’s selfish and self seeking desires which would create a “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (HOBBES) life. He declared that human beings are only sociable through the necessity of fulfilling their needs and desires. This state of nature relies entirely on a pessimistic view of human nature and is incompatible with the liberal view of human nature. Liberal Theories about human nature and John Locke will now be
A social contract is the agreement between citizens and government whereby citizens lend their power to politicians under the justification that politicians use this power for the collective good and to satisfy peoples needs. Hampton, J, (1986) (MORE DETAILS HERE). Due to human nature (according to hobbes) this would lead to an everyman for themselves style of living dominated by mankind’s selfish and self seeking desires which would create a “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (HOBBES) life. He declared that human beings are only sociable through the necessity of fulfilling their needs and desires. This state of nature relies entirely on a pessimistic view of human nature and is incompatible with the liberal view of human nature. Liberal Theories about human nature and John Locke will now be