0 an agreement among the members of a society or between a society and its rulers about the rights and duties of each --
1 agreement among the members of a society or between a society and its rulers about the rights and duties of each --
Yet, they are important steps in a direction leading towards a naturalistic account of justice and of the social contract.
Social relations and conflict affect the social contract and state institutions, but these in turn impact social relations.
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This is the other side of the social contract.
To me the social contract has always been nothing more than a metaphor for the deliberations of such observers.
Evidence suggests people contribute more to goods that are legitimized through the social contract created by majoritypeer-support voting outcomes.
It was a corollary of the negation of social contract theory and the atomistic construction of the international society.
This makes about as much sense as the gathering-under-the-tree-tosign caricature of social contract that is so appealing to every generation of undergraduates.