According to Hobbes, what is the primary purpose of the social contract?

to protect rights

to remove rights

to reduce liberty

to expand liberty

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Paityn Fritz

13 August, 16:48

According to Hobbes, what is the primary purpose of the social contract?

to protect rights

to remove rights

to reduce liberty

to expand liberty

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Lea Suarez · Answer 1

the primary purpose of the social contract is to expand Liberty

Sharon Hines · Answer 2

to reduce liberty

Explanation:

According to Hobbes, men are apolitical, solitary, poor, nasty, and brutish in their state of nature. The social contract would diminish men's liberties, but that would be a necessary course for men to create order and a society with a leadership and only that way a State could be formed.

According to Hobbes, what is the primary purpose of the social contract?to protect rightsto remove rightsto reduce libertyto expand liberty

According to Hobbes, what is the primary purpose of the social contract?

to protect rights

to remove rights

to reduce liberty

to expand liberty