PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Contract, Freedom Of Religion, Harm Principle

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Victoria Burke

Document Summary

Idea on how life would be like w/o social contract) have natural right to their own powers, diff. levels of power) (obbes, locke, and rousseau are all (cid:498)social contract(cid:499) political theories (cid:523)dif. Hobbes and locke hold a view of (cid:498)natural right(cid:499) (cid:523)pre-political right, people. Rights as (cid:498)pre-political(cid:499) held (cid:498)prior(cid:499) to the social contract (cid:523)hobbes and. Natural rights held (cid:498)against(cid:499) violation by the state (cid:523)hobbes and locke) and. For rousseau, rights do not precede the social contracts (the social contract makes them possible) people are motivated by fear and will do what they can with their pre-political rights to protect themselves. Exist prior to social others (fear, that people are gonna kill, take their property) ppl. Protect peoples natural rights from each other contract i. g property, life, liberty. If these are natural rights, they logically precede the social contract: individuals retain these natural rights after entering into the social contract.