Thomas Hobbes is one of the central Social Contract philosophers of the enlightenment. He believed that the social contract should individuals voluntarily surrendering their freedom in exchange for security under what he called, a Leviathan. To Hobbes, life without society would be nasty, brutish, and short, and so a strong authority was necessary to keep order.

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Noesgaard, D., Yoshida, D., Colless, R., Phui, L., & Fielding, J. (2010). Understandings of ideologies. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

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