Social Contractarianism
Given that political obligation may be defined as an obligation to obey the rules and laws set by the state, although aside from this obligation, one would not feel obliged to do so, we find many explanations as to the motives of political obligation as set forth by David Gauthier. In his essay “The Social Contract as Ideology” Gauthier offers a statement given by Thomas Hobbes that “our thoughts and relationships… are best understood by supposing that we treat all of these relationships as if they were contractual” (29). This suggested theory is that of the social contract. By nature, we find that men are competitive beings, due to the fact that they are appropriative creatures always seeking more goods, and more power. Gauthier suggests that “men find themselves in an increasingly competitive situation, in which the security of their property is continually decreasing” (35). If men are driven by a continual desire to a
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Approximate Word count = 625
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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