Society

Question 1

Locke

Answer 1

Society has the right to change the state if it doesn’t fulfil the social contract. No one, including the state, should harm another.

Question 2

J.S. Mill

Answer 2

Individual sovereignty. Harm principle. He warned against the “despotism of custom”, this is where individuals/state is guided purely by public opinion; instead of this there should be “experiments in living”. Ideas must be subjected to free debate.

Question 3

Rawls

Answer 3

Rational individuals would choose to create a society and live in one that improved the conditions of the poorest members. Individuals should be able to start anywhere in society and, due to equal opportunity, succeed.