Sentences with phrase «on social contract theory»
Accordingly the state has entirely different moral obligations than an individual (see the SEP article on social contract theory as well as the «state» section of the article on Hegel).
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Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.
The covenant's dependence on nature even holds for that feature of God's pact with the Jews that would seem to connect most closely with social contract theories: the element of mutual agreement.
The former view, one that accepts the social contract theory, leads to a hyper «individualism that, on the liberal side, fetishizes free speech and subscribes to a «do your own thing» morality, and, on the conservative side, is reflected in libertarian economics, as in Margaret Thatcher's famous (or notorious?)
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).
Kasper and I had actually first worked on a book about public art, and while we were working on all kinds of public art theories, on the social contract of art, we realized that, as a matter of fact, there was still painting.
Artist Statement I was in the mood to recover some classics so I did some arting on that new - fangled computer machine.The cover is supposed to represent Hobbes» social contract theory...