Hobbes_And_Sexual_Contract

Hobbes And Sexual Contract HOBBES & THE SEXUAL CONTRACT Without doubt, one of the most influential critics of Social contract is made by feminist thinkers, or let put it more correctly, by the feminist thought. As one of the most influential person in the contractarianist tradition, Hobbes got his share from these serious criticisms. In this short commentary, I want to deal with Carole Pateman’s Hobbes critic. Basically, I will try to evaluate her basic premises and make a critic of his understanding of Hobbes. As Carol Pateman herself informs Hobbes is the only contract theorist, which began from the premise that there is not natural domination of men over women since both of the sexes are vulnerable to the danger of physical assault in the state of nature and they are equal in terms of strength, rationality and prudence as far as the dangers in the state of nature are concerned. As a result of this hypothetical equality proposed by Hobbes, many writers from the feminist point of view claimed that there is no inherent sexism in the Hobbesian thought. However, Pateman rejects this view and claims that although he is not at the same degree with the other contract theories in sexism, hobbes, contract, women, men, power, right, patriarchal, one, masters, families, thought, state, political, pateman, nature, natural, hobbes’s, claims, authority, view, rejects, however, hobbesian, form, feminist, family, equality, women’s, time, thus, therefore, theory, sovereign, sexual, sexism