This essay will be outlining why Pateman is against the social contract theories. On the former, this essay will consider why the social contract theories should be favoured. In order to construct this essay, it will consist of the social contractors, Lock, Hobbes and Rousseau. Thus, from this paper, it will arrive at the conclusion that, Pateman has valid reasons on why she rejects the social contract theories, which is due to her feminist beliefs. A social contract theory is a consensual agreement
“To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away. To do this to someone else is to murder their soul.” These ringing words of Vikram Seth came to my mind the first when I sat down to write this essay. We live on a small planet in an inexhaustible universe. Life is not easy here. Disappointment and failure, loss and fear, pain and illness, doubt and death. These are all part and parcel of living and even those who have escaped poverty couldn’t find a getaway from them. But