How did this Christian Rawls, theological opponent of the social-contract tradition, become the great secular defender of this tradition in the twentieth century? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Stage Five is the “social-contract legalistic orientation.” ❋ Tong, Rosemarie (2009)
Ironically, the young Rawls rejects social-contract liberalism because it fails to recognize that “individuals become persons insofar as they live in community” (3). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The American Founding redefined nationhood along social-contract linesthat Europeans can still only theorize about. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Our Founding redefined nationhood along social-contract lines that Europeans can still only theorize about. ❋ Papabear (2008)
Could it be, at least in part, that resistance to vaccination is another sign of social-contract breakdown? ❋ Unknown (2006)
As for "social-contract editing," which aims to recapture the original collaboration of many persons in making a book, its proponents must be appalled, since Joyce contracted with Sylvia Beach and company, not Danis Rose. ❋ Rose, Danis (1998)
Traditional Greg-Bowers editing strives to remove this input (as being non-authorial), contemporary social-contract editing seeks to preserve it (as being an integral part of the original creation and reception of the work), whereas my idea (for, specifically, a "reader's edition") is to replace it with its modern equivalent (thus treating the work as if it were being published for the first time). ❋ Rose, Danis (1998)
Only when we have dropped all Locke's theories of primitive man's happiness, and the social-contract fiction, does the real value of his democratic teaching become clear, and the lasting influence of his work become visible. ❋ Joseph Clayton (N/A)
European history, just as the original thirteen American colonies gave up some of their individual powers to make possible a real American state, but the social-contract theory is no longer accepted as a satisfactory explanation of the origin of government. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)
Nevertheless, he differed so completely from the individualistic premise of social-contract theory that society is by its nature a restraining force that he apparently felt called upon to give an absolute answer on the other side. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
By contrasting social organization with an imaginary state of nature, social-contract theory tended to establish a dichotomy between “the individual” and “society,” and to argue as though social organization was by the very fact of being social a restraining force which could only be justified on grounds of necessity. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
Rousseau, whose master in political philosophy was Plato, was in fundamental disagreement with the individualistic premises of social-contract theory. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
But Rousseau took a burden upon himself which was not really incumbent upon him in the light of his critique of social-contract theory. ❋ Jean Jacques Rousseau (1947)
As for the social-contract aspect of marriage, I want no better housekeeper than ❋ William John Locke (1896)
Elsewhere however, that concept of sovereignty went out of style hundreds of years ago. axis-of-evil Arab world, the reality of sovereignty within a state much more resembles mulk and tahakkum than it does a more social-contract type of relationship between citizens and their governments. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Scanlon's contractualism is inspired by the classical social-contract notion of hypothetical agreement or hypothetical consent. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But unless you were an undergraduate philosophy major or have some graduate work in philosophy, you may not be as familiar with some of the ideas that have grown out of the social-contract tradition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
