23215 | Even the poorest have a life to lead, and so should consent to who governs them [-] |
10 | After a taste of mutual harm, men make a legal contract to avoid it [Plato] |
14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
5654 | The Second Treatise explores the consequences of the contractual view of the state [Locke, by Scruton] |
19888 | A society only begins if there is consent of all the individuals to join it [Locke] |
6702 | If anyone enjoys the benefits of government (even using a road) they give tacit assent to its laws [Locke] |
19909 | A politic society is created from a state of nature by a unanimous agreement [Locke] |
21100 | The idea that society rests on consent or promises undermines obedience [Hume] |
20495 | We no more give 'tacit assent' to the state than a passenger carried on board a ship while asleep [Hume] |
21101 | The people would be amazed to learn that government arises from their consent [Hume] |
7233 | The social order is a sacred right, but based on covenants, not nature [Rousseau] |
19842 | The government is instituted by a law, not by a contract [Rousseau] |
20569 | Kant made the social contract international and cosmopolitan [Kant, by Oksala] |
21063 | Personal contracts are for some end, but a civil state contract involves a duty to share [Kant] |
21068 | There must be a unanimous contract that citizens accept majority decisions [Kant] |
21069 | A contract is theoretical, but it can guide rulers to make laws which the whole people will accept [Kant] |
22778 | Individuals can't leave the state, because they are natural citizens, and humans require a state [Hegel] |
3909 | Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Hegel, by Scruton] |
22809 | The social contract sees society as constituted by and for individuals [Taylor,C] |
21119 | Power is only legitimate if it is reasonable for free equal citizens to endorse the constitution [Rawls] |
21019 | Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants [Nussbaum] |
18635 | Social contract theories are usually rejected because there never was such a contract [Kymlicka] |
21035 | Just visiting (and using roads) is hardly ratifying the Constitution [Sandel] |
8989 | The benefits of social freedom outweigh the loneliness, doubt and alienation it brings [Scruton] |
20490 | For utilitarians, consent to the state is irrelevant, if it produces more happiness [Wolff,J] |
20493 | Social contract theory has the attracton of including everyone, and being voluntary [Wolff,J] |
20494 | Maybe voting in elections is a grant of legitimacy to the winners [Wolff,J] |
20984 | A social contract limits the pursuit of justice to members of a single society [Sen] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20537 | Hypothetical contracts have no binding force [Swift] |