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
A social contract is a commitment on behalf of an agent towards the institution to adhere to its norms.
This gap between the elite and the masses prevented the evolution of a code of ethics and a social contract to resolve divisive issues.
Rather, he merely suggests that before the social contract there would have been no cultivation.
It discusses the principal notions of the social contract without heeding its inherence to natural law.
This argument turns on a social contract argument for the legitimacy of states.
But consider the standard story told about 'social contract'.
Each set of circumstances represents a kind of real-world approximation of the social contract theorists' state of nature.
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.
