Timeline for Have social contract theories arisen in predominently mercantile communities?
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| Dec 2, 2012 at 11:49 | comment | added | iphigenie | It is not so very clear that the Leviathan can't (or musn't) be removed. | |
| Dec 2, 2012 at 1:37 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Of course, according to commando, the european concept of social contract theory is rooted in Platos Crito & Republic, and I imagine that he envisaged this as not an oligarchy=mercantile city, but a city ruled by aristocrats, the philospher-kings. Which would make it another exception, unless of course enough distinction can be made between Hobbes conception & Platos for Platos not to be seen as a social contract. | |
| Dec 2, 2012 at 1:34 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | One could wonder that confucious having been born into rural poverty evolved that concept if the soveriegn rule become intolerably burdensome on the rural peasantry | |
| Dec 2, 2012 at 1:29 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | I know nothing about chinese political theory, and very little about confucious, although I spent a bit of time a while ago reading his analects. I do recall that they have the notion of 'the mandate of heaven' which is something close to the divine rule of kings, but in hobbes leviathan he explicitly states that the subjects have no legal means of removing a sovereign, whereas the mandate of heaven can be removed if the conduct of the sovereign is displeasing. This could be another point of difference between the european concept of social contract theory and that of china. | |
| Dec 2, 2012 at 1:25 | vote | accept | Mozibur Ullah | ||
| Dec 2, 2012 at 0:33 | history | answered | Xodarap | CC BY-SA 3.0 |