Question

Which of the following explains the idea of a social contract? (4 points) ▸ O Society should allow its leaders to have total rule. O The government should not control a nation's economy. O Citizens should give up rights in return for protection. O Human beings are cruel and selfish by nature.​

Answer 1

social contract, in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each. In primeval times, according to the theory, individuals were born into an anarchic state of nature, which was happy or unhappy according to the particular version of the theory. They then, by exercising natural reason, formed a society (and a government) by means of a social contract.

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