Believed Social Contract Should Be The Basis Of Political Communities - Famous For His Early And Elaborate Development Of What Has Come To Be Known As "Social Contract Theory" - Infamous For Having Used The Social Contract Method To Arrive At The Astonishing Conclusion That We Ought To Submit To The Authority Of An Absolute - undivided And Unlimited - sovereign Power - For Capitalism He Thought There Should Be An Emphasis On Worldly Happiness As Goal For Government And Self Love - And Abandoned The Notion Government Had Shared Purpose - higher Ideal Or Civic Virtue - He Argued The Christian Ideal Of Pious And Holy Society Was A Danger -led To Fanaticism And Religious Strife.