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    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...
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    The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right (French: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit...
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    New Social Contract (Dutch: Nieuw Sociaal Contract [niu soːˈɕaːl kɔnˈtrɑkt]; NSC) is a political party in the Netherlands founded and led by Pieter Omtzigt...
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  • The Social Contract was a policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in 1970s Britain. The contract referred to a pact between...
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  • Social rights are rights arising from the social contract. For example, James Madison advocated that a right such as trial by jury arose neither from...
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  • Look up social contract in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Social contract is a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people...
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  • The Social Contract Act was a statute passed by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1993 as part of an initiative by the provincial government to mitigate...
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  • The Debian Social Contract (DSC) is a document that frames the moral agenda of the Debian project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the...
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  • The Social Contract Press (SCP) is an American publisher of white nationalist and anti-immigrant literature. It is a program of U.S. Inc., a foundation...
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  • The social contract in Malaysia is a political construct first brought up in the 1980s, allegedly to justify the continuation of the discriminatory preferential...
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  • A New Social Contract (Dutch: Een nieuw sociaal contract) is a manifesto written by Dutch politician Pieter Omtzigt with a contribution by philosopher...
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    Principal–agent problem Quasi-contract Restitution Sharia#Civil cases Smart contract Social contract Standard form contract Stipulation Tortious interference...
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau discourses at length in his classic work The Social Contract). Originally the term "socialist" was often used interchangeably with...
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    bond (Australia), social outcomes contract (UK), social impact partnership (Europe), social impact contract (Europe), or simply a social bond, is a type...
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    Liberty (redirect from Social liberty)
    universal liberties had to wait until the Age of Enlightenment. The social contract theory, most influentially formulated by Hobbes, John Locke and Rousseau...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Social philosophers)
    inequality, and The Social Contract, which outlines the basis for a legitimate political order, are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's...
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  • Contract is a book by the Jamaican philosopher Charles W. Mills in which he shows that, although it is conventional to represent the social contract moral...
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    [1762]. The Social Contract and Discourses. Project Gutenberg – via Internet Archive. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (2017) [1762]. The Social Contract (PDF). Jonathan...
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    In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups. Characteristics of social organization can...
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  • The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder is a 1970 book by Robert Ardrey. It is the third in his four-book...
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  • it is based upon social justice." In the later 20th century, social justice was made central to the philosophy of the social contract, primarily by John...
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  • of social contract theory which arose in the seventeenth century and also successor doctrines which may not have made use of the concept of social contract...
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    following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and...
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  • In ethics, political philosophy, social contract theory, religion, and international law, the term state of nature describes the hypothetical way of life...
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  • conflict. Also, the social contract requires that an individual gives up some of his natural rights in order to maintain social order via the rule of...
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  • justice. Discussion of political obligation grew during the era of social contract theory, in which Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were crucial in explaining...
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  • never elucidating its social contract with the Linux community. Perens realized that Debian did not have any formal social contract either, and immediately...
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    the Laws (1748); Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1754) and The Social Contract (1762); Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments (1764); Adam Smith's...
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    justifications for their existence (such as divine right, the theory of the social contract, etc.). Today, the modern nation state is the predominant form of state...
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  • Social democracy (often shortened to socdem or SocDem) is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic...
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