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| | Social contract - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Social contract is a violation of contract theory | | | Social contract theory (or contractarianism) is a concept used in philosophy, political science and sociology to denote an implicit agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens, or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members, or between individuals. | | | All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society without violating the contract; such violation would signify a problematic attempt to return to the state of nature. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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| | Contractarianism |
| | The social contract then can be seen as a justification by the parties to the contract of their interaction, and of their exploitation of those who are not parties to the contract, but only if the fundamental division of in-group and out-group is accepted. | | | The second rule of contract is that each individual who is a legitimate party to the contract must agree to the rules of justice, which is the outcome of the contract. | | | While contractualists justify the requirement of a fair, impartial agreement by reasons external to the contract itself, contractarians hold that the success of the contract in securing cooperative interaction itself requires that the starting point and procedures be fair and impartial. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism
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| | Social Contract Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Patriarchal control of women is found in at least three paradigmatic contemporary contracts: the marriage contract, the prostitution contract, and the contract for surrogate motherhood. | | | Locke’s arguments for the social contract, and for the right of citizens to revolt against their king were enormously influential on the democratic revolutions that followed, especially on Thomas Jefferson, and the founders of the United States. | | | According to the terms of the marriage contract, in most states in the U.S., a husband is accorded the right to sexual access, prohibiting the legal category of marital rape. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/soc-cont.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Social Contract |
| | By this contract man passes from the natural to the civil state, from instinct to morality and justice. | | | The solution is a contract by which each one puts in common his person and all his forces under the supreme direction of the "general will". | | | The institution of the Government, therefore, is not based on a contract between the people and the magistrates; it is a law. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04335a.htm
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| | There's no such thing as a "social contract." |
| | The social contract, with its periodic democratic elections, is the only system that gives newcomers the chance to voice their agreement and help shape the contract. | | | Like any contract, refusal by either party to live up to its end of the deal is considered breach of contract, and justifies the appropriate law enforcement measures. | | | Many libertarians argue that because children enter a social contract by accident of birth, it's not fair that they should be subject to a contract they never agreed to. |
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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-contract.htm
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| | WHAT IS PEACE? CONCEPTS, QUALITIES, AND SOCIAL CONTRACT |
| | In the dimension of coerciveness, the parties to social contract may voluntarily accept it, or one or more parties may be coerced into it, either by other parties to the contract or by a third party, such as in a shotgun wedding or governmentally imposed, union-management contract. | | | Collective contracts also may emerge from the interwoven, multilayered, bilateral and multilateral social contracts crisscrossing a society. | | | Contracts are usually thought of as this kind, such as a construction contract between two firms or a trade treaty among three states. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/TJP.CHAP2.HTM
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| | Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract |
| | Similarly, in the case of a social contract in the manner of Hobbes or Rawls, each of the parties has reason to honor h/er responsibilities under the terms of the contract -- e.g. | | | Important issues associated with the social contract include the binding force of hypothetical agreements, the reduction (or not) of ethico-political to instrumental reasoning, and the compatibility of contract reasoning with fairness and liberty. | | | The first contract is one that, as we actually are, each of us makes with the surrogate who is to represent us in second-stage contractual reasoning. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary
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| | Self-Sovereignty Documents - Interim Social Contract (Annotated) |
| | A Social Imperative is a required action of this Agreement, the non-fulfillment of which within a time stipulated herein is grounds for a Charge of Breach of this Agreement and for the potential Revocation (forced termination of the Agreement by a Trial) of the status of Freeman with respect to this Agreement. | | | Thus, such a declaration is a necessary prerequisite to any meaningful execution of a Natural Social Contract binding oneself to acceptance of the compossible set of interrelationship responsibilities that such a contract entails. | | | The time of Contract initiation is therefore the best time for the Parties to decide on the contents of Arbitration Clauses. |
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http://selfsip.org/solutions/socialcontract_annotated.html
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| | SocialContract |
| | The Social Contract is inscribed as a banner in the school library. | | | Social Contracts are gaining increasing acceptance in Philadelphia as an innovative approach to defining who government and citizens can work together to achieve comprehensive strategies for neighborhood improvement. | | | These are examples of the kinds of social contracts that the Institute has developed. |
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http://neighborhoodsonline.net/socialcontract.html
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| | SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT MODEL |
| | Likewise, the test of the social contract is the general reasonableness and persuasiveness of its particular social consequences. | | | My purpose is to use the social contract model to determine what principles of social justice individuals would adopt voluntarily and fairly were their judgments not biased by self interest. | | | The social contract gave us security, for which he was willing to grant certain powers to a Leviathan or Civil Society. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/TJP.CHAP5.HTM
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| | social contract. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Locke made the social contract the basis of his advocacy of popular sovereignty, the idea that the monarch or government must reflect the will of the people. | | | Hobbes maintained that by the social contract men had surrendered their natural liberties in order to enjoy the order and safety of the organized state. | | | Like Locke, the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in Le Contrat social (1762), found the general will a means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/so/socialco.html
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| | 20th WCP: The Social Contract Tradition |
| | The social contract, once formed, engenders minor inconvenience for those who may not realize that it is in their interest to be obedient to its authority. | | | We may observe here that the Hobbesian social contract ultimately ends in a dictatorship of the Leviathan. | | | At once, in place of the individual personality of each contracting party, this act of association creates a corporate and a collective body, composed of as many as the assembly contains voters, and receiving from this act of unity, its common identity, its life, and its will (p. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Soci/SociBewa.htm
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| | Social Contract |
| | Is this the social contract envisioned by the Founders of the United States? | | | A Social Contract is the unwritten agreement between individuals within a society. | | | I also agree that the Government may alter the terms of this contract at any time without my permission. |
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward308.htm
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| | Debian Social Contract |
| | The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the contract, initially designed as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by, has been adopted by the free software community as the basis of the Open Source Definition. | | | This document was drafted by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian developers during a month-long e-mail conference in June 1997, and then accepted as the publicly stated policy of the Debian Project. | | | The concept of stating our "social contract with the free software community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. |
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http://www.debian.org/social_contract
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1762 |
| | Being able to regard itself in only one capacity, it is in the position of an individual who makes a contract with himself; and this makes it clear that there neither is nor can be any kind of fundamental law binding on the body of the people -- not even the social contract itself. | | | If then there are opponents when the social compact is made, their opposition does not invalidate the contract, but merely prevents them from being included in it. | | | Duty and interest therefore equally oblige the two contracting parties to give each other help; and the same men should seek to combine, in their double capacity, all the advantages dependent upon that capacity. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-contract2.html
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| | Enlightenment II |
| | Since the legitimacy of the social contract depends upon the unanimous consent of all the governed, the sovereign general will is fully expressed only in an assembly of the entire population. | | | The original contract requires perfect unanimity, and major issues should be decided by a major portion of the population, but simple matters requiring quick action may be determined by a simple majority. | | | So, Rousseau concluded, society must devolve from a social contract in which individual citizens voluntarily participate. |
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| | Emile and Social Contract were later symbolically burned on the orders of the executive council in Geneva. | | | Rousseau's "Social Contract" with its desire for a society dedicated to Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, being a guiding text of revolutionary policy. | | | The opening sentence of the Social Contract is:- |
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http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/rousseau.html
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| | The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| | The Social Contract, then, may be regarded either as a document of the French Revolution, or as one of the greatest books dealing with political philosophy. | | | His name, nearly two hundred years after the publication of the Social Contract, is still a controversial watchword and a party cry. | | | Read, write, or comment on essays about The Social Contract |
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http://www.4literature.net/Jean_Jacques_Rousseau/The_Social_Contract
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| | General Resolution: Editorial amendments to the social contract |
| | Since this modifies the Social Contract, this requires a 3:1 majority to pass. | | | This proposal requires a 3:1 majority, since it modifies the Social contract, a foundation document. | | | General Resolution: Editorial amendments to the social contract |
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http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003
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| | The Social Contract |
| | If we can only be fully human under the auspices of the social contract, then that contract is more important than the individuals that agree to it. | | | After all, those individuals only have value because they agree to that contract. | | | Rousseau's principal aim in writing The Social Contract is to determine how |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/socialcontract/analysis.html
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| | Social Contract Theory |
| | one is correspondingly released from certain obligations under the contract. | | | Reply: it's an implicit contract: a tacit agreement | | | To escape the state of nature requires a social contract to have |
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http://www.wutsamada.com/alma/ethics/rachelsb.htm
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| | The Social Contract Press |
| | In the Winter 2005-2006 issue of The Social Contract now available Charles Wood describes the harm caused by the current policies of counting illegal aliens in the Census and granting citizenship to their U.S.-born children. | | | The Social Contract quarterly journal publishes articles, essays and book reviews on these interrelated topics. | | | Subscribe to The Social Contract quarterly journal: Click HERE. |
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http://www.thesocialcontract.com
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| | Social Contract Project |
| | The principles underlying the social contract come directly from the Preamble to the Constitution. | | | These documents demonstrate how a powerful an instrument a Neighborhood Social Contract can be. | | | The Institute has negotiated several social contracts in Philadelphia. |
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http://www.libertynet.org/edcivic/sochome.html
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| | ODP Social Contract |
| | The following is a social contract that we created to reflect Netscape's commitment to the Web community to keep the ODP a free and open resource. | | | It has been inspired by, derived from, the Debian Social Contract. | | | We promise to keep the distribution of ODP data, and the submission process to this data, entirely free. |
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http://dmoz.org/socialcontract.html
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| | Gentoo Linux -- Gentoo Social Contract |
| | Parts of this document have been derived from the Debian Social Contract. | | | This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development team. | | | Exceptions are made when we receive security-related or developer relations information with the request not to publicize before a certain deadline. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
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| | The Straight Dope Mailbag: The Straight Dope Mailbag: Are vaccinations worth it? |
| | If we all spurned this contract, a new generation of children--our children--would be devastated by diseases that could be avoided. | | | It is true, for example, that vaccine-preventable diseases can--and do--kill children, and that vaccines protect most children from contracting those diseases. | | | Parents who do not vaccinate their children would seem to be apart from this social contract; in reality, though, they can safely refuse vaccination for their children only because most parents have accepted the risk of vaccination for their own children and thereby have raised the overall level of protective immunity. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mvaccine.html
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| | The MusicBrainz social contract - MusicBrainz |
| | This contract is not a legally binding contract -- for legal information regarding our database and software, please consult the download pages. | | | This social contract defines the spirit behind MusicBrainz and it's community of volunteer editors. | | | The development process will be open to the public by using public mailing lists, meetings open to interested parties, and open IRC channels. |
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http://musicbrainz.org/contract.html
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Social Contract-Stanton |
| | Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau | | | Distinct versions of social contract theory were proposed by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls. | | | Belief that political structures and the legitimacy of the state derive from an (explicit or implicit) agreement by individual human beings to surrender (some or all of) their private rights in order to secure the protection and stability of an effective social organization or government. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s7.htm
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| | The Social Contract |
| | That the Institution of Government is not a Contract | | | For offline reading, the complete set of pages is available for download from | | | The Abuse of Government and its Tendency to Degenerate |
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http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/rousseau/jean_jacques/r864s
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| | Economic Injustice & the Social Contract |
| | How have we allowed an economic structure to be created that violates a most basic tenet of the social compact? | | | It's the deliberately thick-skulled, closed-eye nature of too many Americans that necessitates research like Ehrenreich's. | | | And it is hard to imagine a more serious abrogation of "America's core moral values" than that. |
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http://www.therationalradical.com/dsep/0801/social-contract.htm
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