EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
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Leviathan
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Mahabharata
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Social Contract
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Two Treatises of Civil Government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The original cover of Thomas Hobbes’s work Leviathan (1651), in which he discusses the concept of the social contract theory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).
Detailed explanation-3: -In Leviathan (1651), Hobbes argued that the absolute power of the sovereign was ultimately justified by the consent of the governed, who agreed, in a hypothetical social contract, to obey the sovereign in all matters in exchange for a guarantee of peace and security.
Detailed explanation-4: -(Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan, 1651) A much more pessimistic social contract theorist, Thomas Hobbes, believed that appetites governed human nature. In his work The Leviathan, Hobbes wrote that all people desire material things, prominence, and, above all, power.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Locke’s Social Contract Theory He developed his Social Contract Theory in his famous book “Two Treatises on Civil Government (1690)”.