| 1. | Thus he preceded Thomas Hobbes in formulating social contract theory along with earlier scholars.
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| 2. | :* Social contract theory is an attempt to justify limitations by political authority.
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| 3. | Libertarian philosophers such as Michael Huemer have raised criticisms targeted at the social contract theory.
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| 4. | The social contract theory established by Epicureanism is based on mutual agreement, not divine decree.
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| 5. | Although the antecedents of social contract theory are found in antiquity, in power and conscience.
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| 6. | Hobbes's theories decisively shape the concept of sovereignty through the medium of social contract theories.
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| 7. | This influenced Locke to forge a social contract theory of a limited state and a powerful society.
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| 8. | You should read into people like John Rawls and Social contract theory and the links there-in.
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| 9. | The question of the relation between natural and legal rights, therefore, is often an aspect of social contract theory.
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| 10. | In political theory he was an opponent of the social contract theory which held all the mainstream writers of his day.
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