}A convention or ‘contract’ argued upon by society to avoid harm caused by others which would result if everyone did as they pleased.
}I won’t harm you if you promise not to do harm to me
Hobbes
}‘State of nature’- humans are naturally self-interested. ( in Leviathan)
}“The life of man [would be] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”
}Therefore the state of nature is bad for everyone. It is natural for us to want to escape it.
}To escape it requires cooperation ( social contract), so therefore it is rational for us to follow such rules.
}Therefore, there is no right and wrong-just what is agreed by people living in a society.
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