The Social Contract Theory of giving up some rights for protection and safety nets from the government is the philosophy of the Enlightenment thinker

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Elizabeth Hampton

Thomas Hobbes

Explanation:

The English philosopher and thinker Thomas Hobbes is best known for his political thinking. He was also considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He proposes the theory of social contract and which he talked about giving up some rights for protection and safety nets from the government to the public.

The Social Contract Theory of giving up some rights for protection and safety nets from the government is the philosophy of the Enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes.

He thought that in the State of Nature, there is a war of men against men where the strong ones overcome the weak ones, there is no protection of any natural rights that men have. So, they established a government to prevent this eternal conflict and to protect everybody's rights.