The social contract is a concept first introduced by which Enlightenment philosopher?

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Aditya

25 May, 01:39

The social contract is a concept first introduced by which Enlightenment philosopher?

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Essence Butler · Answer 1

Thomas Hobbes was the first person who introduced the concept of social contract.

Nicholas Richards · Answer 2

Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes was one of the enlightenment era's famous English philosophers in the 17th century. Hobbes introduced his ideas based on the social contract theory. The social contract is an agreement by which people commonly transfer their natural rights. He used the social contract method to describe that people should submit to the authority of absolute power.