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

A. Thomas Hobbes

B. Baron de Montesquieu

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. John Locke

It was Thomas Hobbes who first introduced the concept of social contract who famously says that "state of nature ", human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." In general, however, the theory of social contract mainly revolves in questioning the "authority of the state over an individual."