RODRIGUEZ, FRITZ ROYNORE B.

AB POLSCI 1

Compare and Contrast

Social Contract

John Locke Thomas Hobbes Jean Jacques Rousseau

For John Locke, those 3
natural rights are going
to exist in the state of
nature that the right of
life, liberty and property
is easier to be enforce
by the government
because people have
given their express
consent which be bound
by the contract. These
people signed on the
dotted line are going to
be held without social
contract.
For Hobbes, because For Rousseau, life is
of monarch exist, and fair for everyone. As
people are under long as we employ
control. It believes the general Will, we
people are going to
set aside personal
live in peace without preferences, we look
rights. They’re under to the common
control of the good, we look for
monarch yet there is the benefit for
peace, they’ve been everyone and set
controlled human aside our personal
nature is harnessed. interest, our life will
be okay.

They are all social contract theorist who believed that

people should have equal rights that allow them to pursue
their own interests.

State of Nature

For John Locke, the

state of nature exist In his state of
anytime the humans are nature, what For Jean Rousseau,
haven’t enter into an Thomas Hobbes the state of nature is
agreement with each explain is a a wonderful rich
other to participate in a dangerous place. environment that
government. But even He stated “The life early humans were
there’s no government, of man is solitary, living in solitary and
it’s not chaotic because poor, nasty, brutish peaceful lives which I
humans are rational and short”, which presume there’s a
which they understand It’s not a good utopia exist or
humanity in 3 natural place to be. maybe.
rights; right of life
liberty and property.