#💡 #🟠 # social contract theory ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 07, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[ethics]] Ethical view that moral obligations are based on a social contract of rights that are maintained between individuals and the community. [[Thomas Hobbes]] believed social contract is derived from [[natural law]]. [[John Locke]] also believed that everyone is born with basic natural rights, which can't be taken away, that are possessed by everyone equally ## Sources [[Introduction Ethical Perspectives - May 2013]]