According to Thomas Hobbes what motivates individuals to enter into a social contract

Answer: They wanted to escape the unpleasantness of living in a state of nature

Explanation:

Hi, Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as "social contract theory", the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons.

Hobbes invites us to consider what life would be like in a state of nature, that is, a condition without government.

Hobbes famously argued that such a "dissolute condition of masterless men, without subjection to Laws, and a coercive Power to tie their hands from rapine, and revenge" would make impossible all of the basic security upon which comfortable, sociable, civilized life depends.

Answer: They wanted to escape