Leaders have abased social contract

The current state of affairs in our country reminds me of the philosophy and writings of Thomas Hobbes. An enlightenment era philosopher, Hobbes is one of the philosophers who wrote extensively about the idea of a social contract.

As a young student of political philosophy in Egerton University’s Department of Philosophy in the early 1990s, under the tutelage of great scholars like the ever-bearded Prof Muga K’Olale, I simply could not have enough of these readings after I was introduced to them.