Social Contracters and Revolutions

Thomas Hobbes considers that it is a natural state of menkind to:

• Live in Peace

• Live under control of a good government

• Be in constant fear and potential war

• be revolutionary

In "Emile", Voltaire writes a satire against the idea of this world being

(a)  

A social contract is

• An agreement between citizens to stablish the best government

• An agreement about the way in which men can stop being at war all the time

• An agreement between citizens to start a revolution

• An agreement about politics to stablish the best possible world

John Locke is the founder of Political Liberalism, which establishes that:

• The state can be corrupt as long as it protects citizens from war

• The state should be in charge of education so men can think by themselves and not be corrupted by others

• Everyone has freedom of thought and a right to have property, and the state should be protective of those rights

• Freedom should be controlled by nature as humans tend to force themselves on everything around them

Rousseau thinks that men are inocent by nature and

(a)  

The "natural state" is a hypothesis used by the social contracters to explain:

• The importance of the governor over their people

• The importance of nature to rule a nation

• The importance of the absolute power of a monarch

• The power people has to choose the best government

"Men are wolves to other men" was said by:

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

Voltaire promotes the idea of tolerance as a way to:

• Fight the idea of a superior species

• Create a best description of human diversity

• All the answer options to this question, are right

• Promote openness to other ideas and cultures