The Social Contract - Thomas Hobbes & John Locke
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- What is government and how did it come to be? The social contract is the idea that the existence of the government is in fact a contract between people and rulers. The population give up their freedom and give power to certain individuals in exchange for the maintenance of peace and safety. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both had theories around the Social Contract. Watch as George and John explain each of their Social Contract theories and critically assess.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - What is a social contract
0:46 - Thomas Hobbes' Social Contract Theory
4:38 - Problems with Hobbes' Social Contract Theory
7:19 - John Locke's Social Contract Theory
11:03 - Problems with John Locke's Social Contract Theory
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A very simple and easy video to understand the two theories. I commend this channel for making learning philosophy easier. Thank you for the video.
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This is all I could think about honestly.
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This was so incredibly helpful. I was having such a hard time finding sources that could actually break down and explain in layman's terms what both of these theories were and you guys did it so well. I needed to write a paper on this for my online humanities class and all the sources she gave us in the "online textbook" were so hard to understand and didn't explain anything. thank you so much for going so in depth! I've subscribed and will definitely come back and use you guys in the future!!!
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By the way i got the assignment from the university to watch the social contract between Hobbes&Locke and to be honest i really like this video it very well-put and understandable.
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really great video! I especially like the part you two insert potential disagreement and discussion
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Hello Philosophy Vibe, thank you for this insight and making understanding of these concepts easier. However, it would be of much gratitude to receive your analytics on the racial contract theory on your channel as well.
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Im about to defend my Thesis with regards to Hobbes' Social Contract Theory, one major questions i might encounter is why i chose Hobbes' over Locke. I am fortunate to find this video.
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I would contra-argue that just the fact property is not self-evident as natural law doesn't mean it is not. Gravity is also not self-evident but still a natural law.
And about the last argument of 'go to live in a forest', I understood the argument, but the main point of this argument is about legitimate power to use the force against you and make you agree with such a contract.
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Life is the first property you have. Slavery is just a tax of the 100% over your work and the lack of own property, dependant on the control of a master who could perfectly be analogous the own State.
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Anyone else here from Jordan Peterson describing how he's a combination of both of these great men? 👍 Love that guy.
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Very interesting .
Great video. In regard to Locke’s idea of overthrowing the government should they become too corrupt, you could expand on that through Thomas Paine
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That's no idea and can be found readily in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the bill of rights.
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Some of the "problems of the social contracts" could be answered if you also discussed about contractarianism.
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that was really good..I have a reuest sir...kindly make another video and include Jean. J Rousseau,s social contract theory comparison with Hobbes and Locke...compare and contrast the theories of these three persons in a single scroll...i will be deeply grateful..
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Can you please make a video on Mancur Olson and his views, and how they differ from Hobbes ideas of democracy/government? Thank you!
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Excellent
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Bruh the rainforest ( ToT ) guess I got my backup point for my next debate
Interesting the point being made about having absolute freedom vs being protected by police and government.
Seems like the idea of private rights and public Commerce rights are still being intertwined without being divided correctly
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is locke's social contract historical or moral? the same with hobbes? why?
John Locke's social contract revels morality. The theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behaviour.
Very great! I wish you can make John Rawl's Justice as fairness also in connection with Locke's Liberalism
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Does he ever address that the state usually has the Monopoly on violent power?
So why do we have parlaments? Is it not to limit the power the government? What about elections? They throw the current government for a new depending on what people believe they want.
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Finally someone who actually calls out Hobbes on his delusional theory of social contract. Everyone that talks about this does it as if this man is a genius, when he's simply a fool and having seen the war made him a coward!
First Hobbs contradicts his philosophy as he states individuals are selfish and corrupt. So in that very breath he states give these “individuals” full power and authority? Interesting.
According to Locke the state of nature was bounded by laws derived from rational thoughts since humans are rational beings... I may think that in the earlier state before human development there was no sense or too many cases of brutality and wrong doing. Then why the need for a social contract to have our properties secured if safety was assured in the state of nature?
i’m SOOOO late but part of locke’s state of nature is that every man has equal right to enforce the laws of nature on every other man, which includes punishment for violating those laws (ie infringing on life, liberty, and property). locke argued that a situation where each individual enforces their own justice leaves open the potential for “justice” to become biased and self interested and more about revenge than anything else. so while the state of nature is not a violent bloody war like hobbes’ is, it’s by no means safe. people’s life liberty and property rights are constantly threatened by others, and because of our bias/self interest we’re also not very good at enforcing justice on each other when those rights are violated. so it’s better and safer to authorize a government to enforce those protections for us
tell the guy in the purple that smoking is VERY bad for you. Great video btw
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Lol where was this video when I was in uni? I would've aced my POLS 301 module
Agreed. So what happened in the US. Religion is everywhere. Even on the money.
This is like the ideal gas law for politics. Great for teaching elementary concepts, but not very accurate to use often in real life applications.
Locke's theories don't really seem to be much of a contract at all, considering that the contract can be broken whenever the government is unjust (which is good, I just don't think his theory strongly fits in with the idea of a "social contract").
Unjust to whom is the big question.
"What is government and how it came to be?" It's known as the constitution. It is what is known as duties and limitations of the "government." Since FDR we've had neither. UNITED STATES has been a corporation since in chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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The best idea from Hobbes was to get relegion out of politics
The only good idea, I would say 😅
Yeah look how that went, drag queens teaching our kids and soulless corporate society
A profound statement about religion from a person who does not know how to spell religion. Given your spelling I'm going to assume Biden voter🤔😋?
Getting religion out of politics also seperated politics from religion. A win-win in many cases.
Isn't hobbes a-historical? he could have drawn his observations from English history
going back to Magna Carta for relations of individual v state.
I was just wondering in what sense it is not self evident that life, liberty and property are natural rights?
It's other way around, liberty, life and property is called natural right by liberal and they have to produce evidence to such claim not those who denies it.
“If you don’t like the state, then you can just leave”
Bruh
I disagree with these philosophers reviews on how social contract theory. Most of the liberal society as far as social contracts are concerned are based around the UN, and The fact that liberal values on morality are superior to conservative values on morality and that we’re bound by birth to those liberal and progressive values rather we like it or not. UN position is that these of liberal progressive morals including international democracy or a form of human rights which is why we agree to them by existing. Saying that you disagree with International human rights law is by it’s definition a hypocritical and contradictory statement as you agreed to international human rights law by existing.
The thing is a posing liberal progressive society is where the problem, because even conservatives agreed to the society by existing.
Good information but the voice-over/speed of talking not so much ...
Great Video! But second guy should stop smoking.
His whisky drinking is also out of control 😂 thanks for watching.
Thomas Hobbes is a bit similar to communism political state... I subscribed to lockes viewpoint sovereignty by rational rights.
Absolutely not. In fact, Thomas Hobbes was the first to analyse political systems using the individual and not the community as the main subject of political construction, that is why he is one of the fathers of liberalism.
Communism, on the other hand, can be related with another contractualist: Rousseau. His idea of "general will" was certainly an inspiration for Marx. But comparing communism with Hobbes is nonsense.
@@pimpampum9968 what you are referring to is John Lockes
@@jamesnorseman4863 No. All I said is correct.
@@pimpampum9968 i completely agree with you, Rousseau believed that people should rule themselves, he believed that the legislature (the person that represents the people) should always place their general interest before their individual interest and that's true communism on the other hand Hobbes believed that people can't live together because they're selfish by nature, the only way to coexistence is by sacrificing something and that is their freedom.
Sounds like sleepy Joe is not doing his part
video was great why the left sound like he almost dying from lack of oxygen
Guy on the left needs to clear his throat or something
First three minutes pretty much rules me out of being rational
Jesus is sovereign and hes coming back.
I'd bet he doesn't.
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This video literally saved me on my midterm
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