Sentences with phrase «of social contract»

It is a kind of social contract.

«As a result, he overlooked Canada's democratic tradition and the importance of the social contract between Canada's electorate and Parliament.»

He thought that the lack of property required a re-examination of the social contract on which our society — a capitalist market economy — was built.

By agreement amongst the Chief Judge and the judges» associations, the Court suggested a different approach to the government — one that would show a commitment to the concept of the Social Contract but would also respect the Court's judicial independence.

«Immersing himself in the study of magic over the past two years, Kaino's inquiry unveils the restructuring of the social contract between art and audience, generating new conceptual strategies that bridge contemporary systems of art production and exhibition with the mythical and mysterious dimensions of magic.

They accept the terms of the social contract into which they have entered, but sometimes bite the hand that feeds them.

I feel like artists sometimes are outsiders, and I feel like foster youth, through no volition of their own, are born outside of the social contract.

Because of the mutual interdependence of this social contract, we can argue that MMO game publishers and admins have moral responsibility to players and our virtual possessions.

Even if we gathered all the really «funny» object together, there is no guaranty those objects would be funny next year - unless we all agreed they were as part of a social contract.

The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

Their rejection of his social contract coincides with an optimistic Lockean faith in the capabilities and moral fortitude necessary for negative liberties to survive.

Clip 1 — Facilitating the Development of a Social Contract: The Beginning Context — 7th grade class on the 2nd day of the year.

Written Social Contract reflection Teachers can assign a short weekly or monthly writing assignment in which students reflect on one of more of the Social Contract principles.

It asks students the following questions to assess the degree to which teachers, other students, and they themselves are living by each of the Social Contract's rules:

«Waiting for «Superman»» doesn't explore the deeper changes in American society that have led to this crisis: the widening gap between rich and poor, the loosening of the social contract, the coarsening of the culture and the despair of the underclass.

Pedro Noguera suggests that we focus on the purpose of reconnecting and engaging students in learning, especially those students who have not received the benefits of the social contract promised by education.

But are American schools teaching the fundamentals of the social contract?

The test poses questions in the form of a social contract.

The Regional Commander said the Police is committed to ensuring a violent - free election in fulfilment of the social contract they had with Ghanaians by maintaining...

The Regional Commander said the Police is committed to ensuring a violent - free election in fulfilment of the social contract they had with Ghanaians by maintaining law and order, before, during and after the polls.

Enumerating a number of fulfilled promises at various events in the Volta Region on Saturday, he said the government is on course to meet in full, its part of the social contract.

He said the government has fulfilled a part of the social contract it had with the people just 16 months in office, adding they are working assiduously to ensure the fulfilment of the rest to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.

«PB's greatest successes lie in a reweaving of our social fabric, a renewed belief that government can work for us and not just elites, and a rewriting of the social contract between government and citizen, and among neighbors.»

Her rationale is rooted in the notion of a social contract.

As a fulfilment of his social contract with his constituents, a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Honourable Olusegun Olaleye, has empowered more than 400...

This birth voter's apathy, civil disobedience to constituted authorities and failure to perform statutory duties as a precursor to the eventual burial of social contract.

Lysander Spooner, in his essay, «No Treason», makes the argument that the idea of the social contract is an absolute myth by deconstructing the notion of a contract and applying it to individual consent.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

The idea of a social contract has a long history, dating back to various ancient cultures, ranging from the ancient Egyptians, Hammurabi, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian and the traditions of the three monolithic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Again, the theory of social contract informs us that individuals choose to cede some rights in exchange for their protection from the dismal life in a state of nature.

A radical increase in the mental and physical prowess of certain individuals via bio-technology and synthetic biology would nullify the presupposition of shared vulnerability, and with it a fundamental ground for the possibility of a social contract.

Counterinsurgency approaches reflected the Western concept of the social contract: If the Afghan state provided goods, it was assumed the Afghan population would offer their loyalty in return.

It was this error, O'Grady believes, that led eventually to the «breakdown of the social contract, the subsequent Winter of Discontent and the Thatcherite counter-revolution.»

The early modern period saw the rise of social contract theory (agreement replacing reason or faith), a focus on laws and institutions (rather than the unitary leader).

That's the weakness (if you consider it weakness) of social contract theory.

Popular sovereignty as the revolutionary principle is not based on the nation alone, but rather on a republican understanding of the social contract, where all citizens are equal and free.

Governance (which, as explained in my previous piece, implies the deconstruction of modern - style government, of the social contract and of the value of representation): Africans want to be treated as equals; they are not sure that «democracy» is the way to go: democracy tends to break their traditions and so far hasn't delivered order and socioeconomic progress.

Thus Mondale reworks the idea of the social contract to justify the individual entitlements of the welfare state, not the individual freedoms of the market.

I feel embarrassed sometimes that my fellow Christians (if the Christian community is willing to accept me as a Christian... like that even matters) are so uneducated as to ignore the general principle of a social contract.

Katz claims that the bishops had a fairer idea of social contract than do the advocates of workfare.

A much more central dichotomy in modern politics, however, is rooted in those who accept the fiction of a social contract and those who see it for the fiction that it is.

Even though theology as a whole has not gone to these Hegelian lengths, from the very beginnings of Christian theology there has been a kind of social contract between philosophy and theology in virtue of their common concern for truth, and a very close association indeed between the Catholic traditions of theology and metaphysics.

John Locke, a principal Enlightenment force behind the theory of a social contract, advocated the right of citizens» resistance to enforce the terms of the contract.

Such reasons certainly reflect a classical Western view of the social contract, and those who don't give a damn about anyone but themselves can skip this section and go on to the next.

The existence of a powerful, wise, and benevolent Divinity, who foresees and provides the life to come, the happiness of the just, the punishment of the wicked, the sanctity of the social contract and the laws: these are its positive dogmas.

I expect people counted the myth of the social contract more believable because it was a myth of their own creation.

No matter how sophisticated, or at least complicated, theories of social contract may be, they are as thoroughly made up as nursery tales.

The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato's Republic.

Can Christians endure a radical renegotiation of the social contract and find ways to hold fast with what they know, articulate their views, and be heard?

The utilitarian interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the social contract and is consonant with the modern theory of natural rights as derived from John Locke.