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v. t. e. In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. [1] Conceptualized in the Age of Enlightenment, it is a core concept of constitutionalism, while not necessarily convened and written down in a ...
29 de mar. de 2024 · They then, by exercising natural reason, formed a society (and a government) by means of a social contract. Although similar ideas can be traced to the Greek Sophists , social-contract theories had their greatest currency in the 17th and 18th centuries and are associated with the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau .
2 de feb. de 2024 · Although philosophers since antiquity have entertained the idea, it was three Enlightenment thinkers, in particular, who made the ideas of the state of nature and a social contract integral parts of their philosophy: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Such ideas may never have been realised in practice, but the state of nature and social ...
A Social Contract: Directed by Jason Mac. With Sean Astin, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Craig Parker, Samora Smallwood. A political dinner turns deadly when a group of power starved politicians fight for a seat of survival on a helicopter at the onset of a nuclear war.
The notion of a social contract also plays a more or less direct role in various approaches to ethical theory developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Some philosophers have held, for example, that conventional moral principles are justified by the fact that rational, self-interested persons would agree to observe them (because each ...
3 de mar. de 1996 · The aim of a social contract theory is to show that members of some society have reason to endorse and comply with the fundamental social rules, laws, institutions, and/or principles of that society. Put simply, it is concerned with public justification, i.e., “of determining whether or not a given regime is legitimate and therefore worthy of loyalty” (D’Agostino 1996, 23).
Rousseau’s response to the problem is to define civil society as an artificial person united by a general will, or volonté générale. The social contract that brings society into being is a pledge, and the society remains in being as a pledged group. Rousseau’s republic is a creation of the general will—of a will that never falters in ...
