https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00444.x • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00444.x Copy URL Social contract thought has always ...

This liberal theory of violence is grounded in the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (whom I’ll discuss later) were very different politically, but they all agreed ...

In modern times, any claims about the world require one thing: evidence. One cannot claim the world is flat without proof, nor can one claim it is round without proof. In that regard, the most common ...

Social contract theory offers a powerful method and metaphor for the study of organizational ethics. This paper considers the variant of the social contract that has arguably gained the most attention ...

Recently, I was having a (mostly) amicable conversation (debate) with a friend about wearing masks. This individual asserted that “wearing masks was an abridgement of his personal liberties and he ...

HEPP is co-organizing an open seminar and course with the Doctoral Programme on Gender, Culture, and Society (SKY) on the late Carole Pateman's book of feminist critique, The Sexual Contract, and ...

Social contract theory is an ancient philosophical idea that states that an individual's ethical and political obligations relate to an agreement he has with every other individual within a society.

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

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The organizational theory of corporate social responsibility revolves around the discretionary, ethical, legal and economic expectations placed on businesses by society, according to the Reference For ...