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    The document discusses ancient philosophers' views on humans and society. It outlines Plato's ideal society with three classes and Aristotle's view that humans are social creatures that flourish in societies with just laws and constitutions serving the common good. It also summarizes social contract theorists like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Hobbes argued people surrender rights to the state for protection. Locke believed sovereignty resides in the people, not state. Rousseau proposed social contracts limiting king's power and making government answerable to people.

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    The document discusses ancient philosophers' views on humans and society. It outlines Plato's ideal society with three classes and Aristotle's view that humans are social creatures that flourish in societies with just laws and constitutions serving the common good. It also summarizes social contract theorists like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Hobbes argued people surrender rights to the state for protection. Locke believed sovereignty resides in the people, not state. Rousseau proposed social contracts limiting king's power and making government answerable to people.

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    THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE SOCIETY

    What makes human persons


    different from animals?
    ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEW ON MAN IN THE SOCIETY

    Plato
     Transcript of Plato’s Ideal Society. Plato described a perfect society as one where
    everyone lived harmoniously and without fear of violence or material possession.
     He believed that political life in Athens was too rowdy and that no one would be
    able to live good life with that kind of democracy.
     Plato’s ideal state there are three major classes, corresponding to the three part of
    the soul
     The guardian, who are philosophers, govern the city; the auxiliaries are soldiers
    who defend it; and the lowest class comprise the producers (farmers, artisans, etc.)
    ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEW ON MAN IN THE SOCIETY

    Aristotle
     Aristotle think that we can’t live well alone – we are social creatures – and we need to consider
    other persons.
     Some societies are better than others to the extent that they provide the condition in which their
    citizen to flourish.
     To determine whether a government is good or bad Aristotle asked three basic questions: 1) Does
    the government serve the common good or does it serve the selfish interests of those with power?
    2) does the government rest on the power at the ruler’s disposal or does it rest on laws that have
    been made in such a way that the ruled have agreed to them and have has a part in making? And 3)
    if the government is constitutional, is that constitution just and are the law made by that
    government just?
     The best government is not tyrannical or despotic, and has a just constitution and just laws.
    SOCIAL CONTRACT

    Thomas Hobbes
     Hobbes held that since people are fearful predatory they must submit to the
    absolute supremacy of the state, in both secular and religious matters, in
    order to live by reason and gain lasting preservation.
     Argued for the existence of the state in order to create a community of
    citizens free from the brutalities of the state of nature – where every man is
    enemy to each one.
     It requires the people to surrender, completely or in part, their rights to
    whoever or whatever for the protection of everybody – “State”
    SOCIAL CONTRACT
    John Locke

     Locke’s view, in his Two Treatises of Government (1690), attacked the theory
    of divine right of kings and the nature of the state as conceived by the English
    philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes.
     Locke argued that sovereignty did not reside in the state but with the people,
    and that the state is supreme, but only if it is bound by civil and what he called
    “natural” law.
     Strong proponent of the Natural Law promoted the idea that each individual
    person possesses inalienable rights that cannot be violated by the state.
     Held that revolution was not only a right but often an obligation
    SOCIAL CONTRACT

    Jean Jacques Rousseau


     He proposed the concept of Social Contract which limited the
    powers of the king and made the government answerable to the
    people.
     There be binding laws that are supported by the general will of
    the people

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