Hobbes brings up this excellent point and gives us these thoughts to ponder about. A government is made up of inividuals and each individual has their own morals. Their morals are usually based only off of actions and not seen in the eyes of their motives or will.

November 3, 2008 by chrisbreen. As taught as a young child, people grow with the sense to always do right by themselves and others. Also, if dong the right thing in certain situations you will help better your own self. As Kant has put it,. October 30, 2008 by chrisbreen. Is happiness always brought out by a good deed done? The intrinsic value of happiness, is life. Its just to be living in the world we all liv.

Who is a party to the social contract. There is some level of trust which can exist without the insurance of a government. The evidence of that trust would be relationships and packs of people living together before there was any enforcers or contracts.

Can any one ethicist be more appealing? December 8, 2008. Or is it just considered murder? Likewise can murder be found lacking? November 23, 2008. Hobbes believes that he has a very solid basis for his social contract, but what about children? Are they party to the social contract? When does the gray are stop and the contract start affecting them? Morality of A Government? November 20, 2008. First is it really immoral, becau.