Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)
by dragonwriter on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:24PM
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Locke's concept of the requirements for social contract are not the original ones; while he was an influential early social contract theorists, he was not the first, and his ideas (in general or on that point specifically) were not universally accepted among social contract theorists, so describing Locke's idea of the requirements as the "original foundation" of the idea of a social contract is historically false.
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Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)
by avn2109 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:50PM
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This is an interesting claim but I'm not qualified to evaluate its truth or falsehood. Can you link us to the "original foundation?"
Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)
by dragonwriter on Friday January 20, 2017 @09:20AM
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There's not one "original foundation", but there were a number of earlier social contract theorists than Locke with different ideas, like Hobbes, as well as contemporary and later theorists whose work wasn't grounded entirely in Locke's.
Locke was an early and important writer in social contract theory, but not the original source in which all social contract theory is grounded.