social contract in English

noun
1
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.
The rights we have are there by accord and by some kind of social contract - a social contract that is also to an extent built upon biology.

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1. Not such a social contract, then.

2. Maybe that's just the social contract.

3. We are forming our own Social Contract.

4. They have violated this deep-seated social contract.

5. His theory of social contract has wide currency in America.

6. Modern civilized society, is the essence of a social contract.

7. His theory of the social contract had wide currency in America.

8. Maybe if Carter was elected he would offer a social contract.

9. Oakeshott does not, however, adopt the Hobbesian idiom of social contract.

10. Social contract theory was effectively dismissed for its lack of sociology.

11. Oakeshott does not, however[Sentencedict], adopt the Hobbesian idiom of social contract.

12. Anyone who agrees to abide to the Social Contract may become a maintainer .

13. But neither does it depend on some higher authority or a social contract.

14. It is as an alternative to these theories that Rawls champions the social contract.

15. The introduction of a social contract was what made raw capitalism work, he argued.

16. This quid pro quo arrangement is usually referred to as the Malaysian social contract.

17. Hence a social contract can ensure stable cooperation only if it reads' I will cooperate.

18. Enlightened Absolutists held that royal power emanated not from divine right but from a social contract whereby a despot was entrusted with the power to govern through a social contract in lieu of any other governments

19. The Tax Reform Act of 1969 defined the fundamental social contract offered to private foundations.

20. Now the masses are beginning to feel that the state has broken the social contract.

21. The great Social-Contract theorists of the Enlightenment therefore explicitly excluded women from their systems.

22. They construed the social contract as a pact of complete subjection to an absolute sovereign.

23. Enlightenment philosophers postulated a social contract to which rational, independent men could be expected to agree.

24. Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes wrote on empiricism and materialism, including scientific method and social contract.

25. One political pundit described it as a formal declaration of the social contract or "Racial Bargain".

26. I've, uh, turned down offers from the cartels who don't exactly abide by the social contract, hence Vick.

27. Rahma in exchange for freedom is the social contract that the new religion proposed to the citizens of Mecca.

28. Shared social contract that states certain rules and laws must be Abided and certain standards, values, and norms maintained

29. After the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (1755), he published The Social Contract (1762).

30. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

31. Extending the rights of man to women is not just another expansion of the social contract to include another excluded group.

32. We would will this as part of the social contract because our own selfishness would enable us to see its necessity.

33. So the social contract is selfishly motivated; it comes about through our rational ability to perceive a personal advantage from it.

34. Due to the structure of the government, coupled with the social contract theory, there has been minimal cultural assimilation of ethnic minorities.

35. An independent economic woman was definitely and explicitly not part of the concept of our social contract as its formulators envisioned it.

36. Rousseau's assertion in The Social Contract that true followers of Christ would not make good citizens may have been another reason for his condemnation in Geneva.

37. In some versions of social contract theory, there are no rights in the state of nature, only freedoms, and it is the contract that creates rights and obligations.

38. According to Rousseau, by joining together into civil society through the social contract and abandoning their claims of natural right, individuals can both preserve themselves and remain free.

39. A year earlier, Abdullah had mentioned the most "significant aspect" of the social contract as "the agreement by the indigenous peoples to grant citizenship to the immigrant Chinese and Indians".

40. “The policy agenda for inclusive growth can constitute a new social contract for governments across the region,” said Sudhir Shetty, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia and Pacific region.

41. It was then stated that the new emphasis on the Rukunegara was to prevent further questioning of the social contract, which "decides on the political polarity and socio-economic standing of Malaysians".

42. While the disintegration of this social contract by the eighteenth century led to abolitionism, it is argued that the removal of barriers to "insider status" is a very slow process, uncompleted even today (2017).

43. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writing in his Social Contract makes clear the the family (and he meant a man and a woman with children) was "the oldest form of society and the only natural one."

44. (It says, after all, that “Congress shall make no law … Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”) What were those limits? For the founders, natural rights were rooted in a philosophical system called social-contract theory

45. The Corporatist political framework seeks to define and organize every major stakeholder in the social contract, beginning with pro­ductive economic sectors, but also including the professional classes that contribute to society—doctors, lawyers, professors, scientists, and clergy.

46. Coined is, as its name suggests, a somewhat improvisational collection of facts, theories, and anecdotes that, like the objects The result is a frequently fascinating, occasionally platitudinous and loopy, but consistently entertaining account of the grand, pocket-size social contract that makes the world go …

47. Alienable liberty is the basis of Hobbes' system and for all social contract theories (and Hobbes would also say that, despotism being an evil, it is impossible that anyone would ever voluntarily consent to it; hence his famous definition of tyranny as monarchy misliked).

48. ‘The Counter argument, from the disobeyer's point of view, is that the social contract is a fiction as there is no historical evidence of any such agreement ever being entered into.’ ‘But, goes the Counter argument, with so much porn available online now, mobility isn't such a critical advantage anymore.’

49. Blind faith in untrammelled markets and competition has failed abysmally, and now is the time for Europe to be more courageous in creating a new social contract between workers and businesses, and indeed for Member States and Europe to build a new social market economy, as provided for in the Treaty of Lisbon.