PSC 205 Lecture 4: Views on Social Contracts
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Individuals and groups get to use physical force to the extent that the state permits them to. Hobbes" contracts and the leviathan: contracts, express we show our acceptance through overt speech acts. Institution we all agree to submit to one man or assembly: acquisition natural force, making my children to submit to me, and theirs to them, and so on. It makes us safer and makes it easier for us to enjoy our property and security: how do we make a government, by coming together and agreeing to make a government, must be participatory and majoritarian. Locke"s express and tacit consent: express consent i say that i consent to the social contract. Hume against the social contract: no government has ever been form by consent and only by force, consent would be best, but it"s not the foundation of actual governments, security. Bentham"s obedience and reasoning for government: we should have a government.
