COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

The “social contract” was invented because humans needed a fancy way to say “behave.”

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Social contract theory was developed by philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau in the 17th and 18th centuries to explain the legitimacy of political authority.

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