The way mankind has changed throughout its existence on Earth has always been fasicnating to me. The way that humans interact and live with each other has changed so drastically that it’s mind boggling. I always wonder how we were able to go from cavemen building fires to people living in fancy houses over the course of time. And while it would be easy to point at a history book or timeline and point out the events that have occurred, I know that a simple look at the world’s history won’t satisfy my curiosity. I understand that these events happened, but there had to be some sort of common factor that helped in allowing these events to happen. Whatever it was had to influence all sorts of people that have lived on Earth throughout our
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One flaw is that some people will always break moral laws and prove to be immoral regardless of what their society thinks. Think about the moral law of not lying for example. Would every single person be able to always obey this rule? Probably not. From my own experiences in life, I know there were times where people lied to me and times where I lied to others in every social group that I’ve been a part of. Additionally, the Social Contract Theory can be the force that keeps changes from happening in a society. People like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. would have never been able to impact their communities as much as they did if their fellow neighbors stuck with what was moral under the contract. With flaws like these, it’s clear that the Social Contract Theory is not perfect and has its fair share of …show more content…
With that in mind, I would like to introduce Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes is best known as the man who established the Social Contract Theory (Lloyd and Sreedhar, “Hobbes’s Moral and Political Philosophy”). Hobbes lived from 1588 to 1679, during which he completed his philosophical work alongside contemporaries such as Johannes Kepler and Galileo (Sorell, “Thomas Hobbes”). During his life, Hobbes spent time both in France and the United Kingdom because of the English Civil War. The fact that the Social Contract Theory began to develop during a civil war is very
One flaw is that some people will always break moral laws and prove to be immoral regardless of what their society thinks. Think about the moral law of not lying for example. Would every single person be able to always obey this rule? Probably not. From my own experiences in life, I know there were times where people lied to me and times where I lied to others in every social group that I’ve been a part of. Additionally, the Social Contract Theory can be the force that keeps changes from happening in a society. People like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. would have never been able to impact their communities as much as they did if their fellow neighbors stuck with what was moral under the contract. With flaws like these, it’s clear that the Social Contract Theory is not perfect and has its fair share of …show more content…
With that in mind, I would like to introduce Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes is best known as the man who established the Social Contract Theory (Lloyd and Sreedhar, “Hobbes’s Moral and Political Philosophy”). Hobbes lived from 1588 to 1679, during which he completed his philosophical work alongside contemporaries such as Johannes Kepler and Galileo (Sorell, “Thomas Hobbes”). During his life, Hobbes spent time both in France and the United Kingdom because of the English Civil War. The fact that the Social Contract Theory began to develop during a civil war is very