Social Contract Theory

How might social contract theory regard taxation?

As part of the agreed obligations for public goods

According to Hobbes, _____ imply obligations.

Rights

The social contract is only concerned with criminal law.

False

Social contract theory influenced the American Declaration of Independence.

True

The social contract theorist Schur's chapter on Social Contract Theory focuses on is:

Scanlon

Scanlon's framework is identical to Hobbes' classical social contract. 

False

Which two philosophers are most associated with social contract theory?

Hobbes & Locke

According to Hobbes, life without a social contract would be:

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

According to Scanlon, moral reasoning requires:

Considering what others could reasonably reject