Social Contract for Science
The social contract for science is an evocative ideological construct used to describe the relationship between the political and scientific communities. Participants in sc...
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Social Contract Theory
The idea of a social contract can have broad and narrow meanings. In the broad sense a social contract can simply be short hand for expectations in relations between individuals...
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Social Contract [addendum]
Contemporary social contract theory is practically identified with the work of John Rawls (1921–2002). In his best known book, A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to ...
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Social Contract
"Social contract" is the name given to a group of related and overlapping concepts and traditions in political theory. Like other such aggregations in philosophy and inte...
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Contractualism
Contractualism, as a distinctive account of moral reasoning, was originally advanced by T. M. Scanlon in his widely admired paper "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (1982...
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"The current federal system of government in the United States is failing to meet its social contract obligations to the American people." There is nothing closer to the truth than this statement. Wh...
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