Drucilla Cornell describes Ubuntu as as 'an ideal irreducible to one based in an imagined social contract.' In her view 'obligations and duty' in an ubuntu understanding of law goes 'beyond that allowable under social contract theory.'

Your task is to consider the view above:

-firstly by explaining the main features of the social contract as theorised by Thomas Hobbes; John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

- secondly by comparing the gist of their theories, show similarities and differences and

- thirdly respond to Cornell's view; do you think ubuntu can be reconciled with social contract theory? Motivate your answer.