Abstract
The social contract is a doctrine about the origin of the state and a hypothesis of Western political philosophy. Many philosophers, jurists, and thinkers in history have put forward set of social contract theories of their own. Although these different theories in different eras have huge differences, the source of the power throughout them is the right of liberty. This article introduces the meaning and origin of the social contract at first, then compares the social contract theories of Hobbes and Locke to raise the question of whether the right of liberty can be alienated, and finally combines some of Rousseau’s views to demonstrate the impossibility of transferring the right of liberty in the social contract.
Highlights
Liberty in the sense of free will is a multiway power to do any one of a number of things, leaving it up to us which one of a range of options by way of action we perform (Pink, 2011)
2) Humans yearn for liberty The “religious judge” in Dostoyevsky’s “Brother Karamazov” believes that people are inherently servile, and it is a good choice if they can gain some benefits through the transfer of liberty
Hobbes advocated the transfer of all natural rights to Leviathan; from on, people will unconditionally obey its orders, and Leviathan will use its own power to protect people’s rights
Summary
Liberty in the sense of free will is a multiway power to do any one of a number of things, leaving it up to us which one of a range of options by way of action we perform (Pink, 2011). Finding how the social contract theory protects the liberty and whether the liberty can be transferred is meaningful
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