Philosophy 10200
Final
5/18/16
A fair society can be developed by effective contract and agreement. Sometimes, a citizen needs to sacrifice a part of his or her interest to protect the social benefit. Only when all citizens are able to accept and follow the social ethics and contract, can they understand the social constraints and keep their personal willpowers. Therefore, the unity between social discipline and freedom can be realized, as well as the solidarity between personal demands and national benefits.
King first showed his unique thinking. No matter for a person or a nation, social contract is the fundamental basis for a healthy development. Base on a justice environment, an unsuccessful life can make an integration between …show more content…
It means that people should act according to the social rules. However, the fact is that the King have not been speaking about all goods. It is impossible for know everything at that time. Consequently, people have to make some adjustments by enjoying what they have achieved. Human should not explore them and cultivate the new goodness with the existed goodness. Goodness has a large scope, which means that individuals can develop with the development of society. Only the people or citizens to explore the unknown fields can the whole society enlarge the scope of goodness. The mutual development is the win-win situation. People should hold strong desire or passion to pursue good. Nothing can prevent them. In fact, these two thoughts advocate the pursuit of good. They think that good can elevate social and individual development. Therefore, people should pursuit it. However, both of them do not notice the importance of result, not process. They should enlarge its scope and whole procedures of …show more content…
Individual should accept and obey social contract. In the past times, due to the lack of knowledge and technology, many mysteries could not be discovered so that the God system has been used in the governance of rulers, which convinced people that their rights and powers are empowered by God, which should be violated. The primary requirement for people is following their rules. However, their outdated governance method was not appealed to the advanced genius including King. From his point of view, all people are created equal, meanwhile, the power of governors is not empowered by the invisible God. The God system is just an excuse for their