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The “social Contract”

For the umpteenth time in the last several days I have been preached at about “the social contract”.

Invariably, this has come from the lips of people who have no idea of the origins of that phrase.
I’d have to double check but to my memory it was Locke and Hobbes who first conjured it. And they were both screaming atheists.

And here’s a hint. They came up with that phrase, coined and recoined it, because at the bottom line they had no idea where ethics come from, and had to invent something for the purpose of discussing ethics.