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Modern democratic societies, such as those in the United States and western Europe, hold that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed. The people in a society or nation entrust… More »
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Social contract - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social contract describes a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people form states and/or maintain social order. The notion of the social contract implies that the people gi...
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By Fred D'Agostino. ... It is almost a commonplace today that contemporary social contract theory relies on hypothetical, not actual, agreement. And, as we have seen, in one sense this is certainly the case.
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Rousseau's most celebrated theory was that of the "natural man." In his Discourse on the Inequalities of Men (1754) and Social Contract (1762) he maintained that human beings were essentially good and equal in the state of nature but were corrupted by the introduction of property, agriculture, science, and commerce.
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CONTRACT THEORY USED TO JUSTIFY EXISTENCE OF STATE AND PROTECT AGAINST RESURGENCE OF OLDER FORMS OF POWER; ... PRE-SOCIAL STATE OF NATURE ... PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY, NOT HISTORICAL; IRREVOCABLE NATURE OF THE CONTRACT; UNLIMITED SOVEREIGN POWER; THESE NOTIONS DISTINGUISH HIM FROM OTHER CONTRACT THEORISTS;
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THE IDEA OF A SOCIAL CONTRACT ... To escape the state of nature requires a social contract to have ... Some Advantages of the Social Contract Theory of Morals...
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