Sentences with phrase «with social contract theories»

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.

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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.

Much of this topic has been studied for centuries / millenia and some of the fruits of such studies are to be found in various disciplines, including sociology, psychology (cognition), linguistics (e.g. speech act theory) and also law and legal professions dealing with «social contracts» (e.g. diplomatics).