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Are you sure the original idea came from Burke, not Hobbes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes: > "[Hobbes
by dalke 10y ago
Are you sure the original idea came from Burke, not Hobbes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes:
> "[Hobbes'] 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy
(Rousseau was born in 1712.)
Burke, born in 1729, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke :
> ... criticised social contract theory by claiming that society is indeed, a contract, but "a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born".
Or do you mean there are two social contract theories, one Burkean and one Hobbesian? If so, I think you've inverted the time order, though I'm hydroplaning. ;)
Any interpretation is even more complex by the feminist and race-conscious criticisms of the social contract: http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/ . Who is supposed to hear this dog whistle?
- internaut 10y agoProbably yes. Could have sworn Rousseau was after Burke, although logically it makes sense, somebody had to mangle France first after all and then Burke could write his book. > Or do you mean there are two social contract theories, one Burkean and one Hobbesian? I'm thinking Hobbes provided the template, and then there are Liberal (Rousseau) and Conservative (Burke) versions of the same contract depending on how you perceive it. > Any interpretation is even more complex by the feminist and race-conscious criticisms of the social contract: http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/ . Who is supposed to hear this dog whistle? There's quite enough overloading as it is!