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 ...

The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec., 2006), pp. 419-462 (44 pages) Martha Nussbaum has powerfully argued in Frontiers ofJustice and elsewhere that John Rawls's sort of social-contract theory ...

Social contract theory for Occupiers: what law, culture and history tell us No legitimate social contract can be devoid of stewardship, responsibility and duty.

Books & the Arts May 18, 2006 In Theory In Theory In Frontiers of Justice, philosopher Martha Nussbaum explores our moral obligations to the disabled, to nonhuman animals and to the unresolved ...

Applying social contract theory to business ethics is a relatively new idea, and perhaps nobody has pursued this direction better than Thomas Donaldson and Thomas W. Dunfee. Their "Integrative Social ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time when people are open to thinking about social change. Accordingly, we have heard widespread calls for a new social contract.

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 ...

John Thrasher's contribution to the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on the Routledge Handbook on Libertarianism explores the relationship between libertarianism and social contract theory.