Question

Why did Hobbes argue that citizens should form a social contract with their government?
a)Citizens would be able to have increased liberty.
b)Citizens would be able to engage in war with other countries.
c)Citizens would be able to work individually without any support.
d)Citizens would be able to form governments that ensure their interests.

Answer 1

The answer for this would be:

d)Citizens would be able to form governments that ensure their interests.

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Answer 2

Answer:

d) Citizens would be able to form governments that ensure their interests.

Explanation:

In his book named Leviathan: The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651), the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed that humans were violent, selfish, brutish, aggressive competitors, and they were always in the constant pursuit of power and glory. Therefore, in order to live in a more peaceful and orderly way, citizens should form a "social contract" with their government so that this government ensures their interests of establishing a civil society, receive protection, avoid conflicts, maintain peace and live better.

Without this form of government and without the social contract, people would live in their "state of nature", that is to say, in solitude, insecurity and in a nasty and brutish way, where conflicts would reign.