NOUN
- an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
How To Use social contract In A Sentence
- They will not see through the superficial machinations of modern baaskap whose heart is filled with envy at seeing the dream becoming true, of a people united in a social contract, working together black and white, to determine a better future for themselves. SPEECH BY NKOSINATHI NHLEKO, CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
- Voltaire helped us laugh and question, and Rousseau theorized the social contract our societies are based on.
- With no social contract (the desideratum of the advocates of the social), there can be no social relations, and therefore no social.
- Is sexual fidelity simply an elaborate social contract to keep the peace?
- Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.
- Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did.
- The Levellers wanted all free-born Englishmen to sign a social contract, an Agreement of the People, and to enjoy full rights of participation in a decentralized, democratic state.
- So the social contract is selfishly motivated; it comes about through our rational ability to perceive a personal advantage from it.
- In speaking of a social contract, therefore, we are referring not to an actual agreement between empirical selves, but to a hypothetical agreement between purely noumenal beings.
- The counter argument, from the disobeyer's point of view, is that the social contract is a fiction as there is no historical evidence of any such agreement ever being entered into.
