Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Would persons in such a state of nature agree to
surrender their freedom to those who ruled them?
- Hobbes
- Had a pessimistic view of life in the state of nature:
'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short', that
isolated individuals would rationally contract with
each other to hand over all of their sovereignty to a
single sovereign.
- Hobbes saw this as unconditional except if an
individual's life was threatened.
- On what conditions...
- Locke
- Sovereignty and natural rights were both present
in the state of nature.
- Sovereign would only retain legitimacy
to the extent he protected the
individuals right to property.
- Rousseau
- Saw sovereignty in the will of the
people, which remained with them.
- Sovereignty could not be the subject of
a contract - could only be loaned to
representatives, from whom it could be
withdrawn.