Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enlightenment thinkers viewed the social contract theory of government as problematic. They believed that the government would not be able to provide the means to alleviate the problems that modern society has created.
The Social Contract was a focus of philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose book "The Social Contract," inspired American patriots. The principle is that people relinquish some of their rights to an authority in exchange for the authority to protect their remaining rights.
John Jacques Rousseau was the enlightenment philosopher who wrote a social contract on which citizens agreed to live together to protect the rights and in which citizens would obey the general will of the community.
English philosopher john Locke expressed the idea of social contracts during the Age of Enlightenment. John Locke is also known as the father of Classical Liberalism.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
Locke
John Locke.
sovereignty of the people
The Social Contract
A social contract theorist was an Enlightenment Era philosopher who attempted to explain, ex post facto, how some individuals have the right to rule whole populations within a particular geographical area. Social contract theory is an intellectual device intended to give legitimacy to the state. Not all theorists would agree. Locke as example believed that a people can overthrow a government that fails to uphold its part of the contract or violates basic civil rights in governance.
John Locke
Social Contract
Jean Jacques-Rousseau
Jean Jacques-Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
sovereignty of the people
he was an English philosopher and developed a pessimistic .... and for the enlightenment he did....concept the social contract led to an investigation by other political theorists:)
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One of the Englishmen considered a hero of the Enlightenment is John Locke. Locke was a philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, social contract theory, and religious tolerance had a significant influence on the development of Enlightenment thought. His works, such as "Two Treatises of Government," played a key role in shaping political and social ideas of the time.
Thomas Hobbes
Which belief by Enlightenment philosophers advocating a social contract can be found in the US Constitution?
Thomas Hobbes is the philosopher that developed Social Contract Theory. John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are also proponents of Social Contract Theory.
Hobbes
John Locke