The maintenance of social contract theory thus obscures the true nature of the state, and in that regard, it is violence. Moreover, it is violence to tell people who have been oppressed by the state ...

Minouche Shafik has spent years trying to hold up society’s end of the social contract. She previously worked as deputy governor of the Bank of England, deputy managing director of the International ...

Michael Moehler, Diversity, stability, and social contract theory, Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 176, No. 12 (December 2019), pp.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo philosopher’s book is a featured selection of an online symposium, currently in progress, hosted by “Syndicate.” The book is “Social Contract Theory for a ...

While the origins of social contract theory can be traced back to Greece in 400 BC, such principles found greater traction in the 17th and 18th centuries. Philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, John ...

The social contract theory, nearly as old as the notion of philosophy itself, is the view that our moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon an agreement amongst us to form a society.

An° : Dom. 1620.” The theory of the social compact was not exhausted by this first experiment, but was taken up by Hugo Grotius in his work, De Jure Belli et Pacis, which appeared in 1625.

Lagging a bit behind is the new ethics for this new world, by which I mean a revised moral social contract dealing with risk for infectious disease.