After these contracts are established, however, then society becomes possible, and people can be expected to keep their promises, cooperate with one another, and so on. So, it was Hobbes view that it was unnatural for man to put himself under the control of others, to have a government, but that it was rational to do so...
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This is much unlike the theories of Plato and Aristotle that we’ve discussed in class, both in which taught that governments came about because there exists a social instinct in man to gather together under powerful councils and form government. In my thoughts, the Social Contract is the most fundamental source of all that is good and that which we depend upon to live well...
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