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Humanity and the Prospects of a New Social Contract

Many theories of the social contract and natural rights were developed between the 17th and 18th centuries. The most famous among the theorists behind them include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, ...
When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The seventeenth century ...