Question

In the racial contract, how isi the "state of nature" conceived? How does this work to establish a racial contract? (Please extend your answer)

Answer 1

The Racial Contract is political, moral and economic in that it assumes that nonwhites are naturally inferior in all of these categories, and were even when they were living in a state of nature in Africa and the Americas.

Whereas the ideal contract explains how a just society would be formed, ruled by a moral government, and regulated by

a defensible moral code, the Racial contract explains how unjust, exploitative society, ruled by an oppressive government, comes

into existence.

When humans began, they existed in what is known as a state of nature, in which every man had full rights to do whatever he chose. Though every man possessed these rights, the ability to exercise them was much less certain due to the constant infringement of others on his property. Recognizing this, people decided they would live collectively, and trade the uncertain right to do whatever they wanted, for the stability and security to practice a smaller number of rights. This is the fundamental social contract, the trading of full freedom for the benefits of living collectively (such as stability and security).