Concept
Social contract
Overview
concept in political philosophy
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Therefore the social contract is the foundation of all civil society, and it is in the nature of this contract that we must seek the nature of the society formed by it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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The clauses of this contract are so determined by the nature of the act that the slightest modification would make them vain and ineffective; so that, although they have perhaps never been formally set forth, they are everywhere the same and everywhere tacitly admitted and recognised, until, on the violation of the social compact, each regains his original rights and resumes his natural liberty, while losing the…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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CITY OF PARIS. PRINCIPLE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. PARSIMONY NOT ECONOMY. MAJESTY OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. DUTY NOT BASED ON WILL. ECCLESIASTICAL CONFISCATION. MORAL OF HISTORY. USE OF DEFECTS IN HISTORY. SOCIAL CONTRACT. PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS. MADNESS OF INNOVATION. THE STATE, ITS OWN REVENUE. METAPHYSICAL DEPRAVITY. PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL CLAIMS. MONASTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC SUPERSTITION. DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF…
Edmund Burke, Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edmund Burke
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Philosophers who discussed Social contract
- Edmund Burke
- Epicurus
- Roger Scruton
- Francisco Suárez
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Panaetius
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Thomas Hobbes
- Aristotle
- Jeremy Bentham
- David Gauthier
- Peter Vallentyne
- Taha Abdurrahman
- Naomi Zack
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Francisco Suárez
- School of Salamanca
- Consent of the governed
- Game theory
- Anarchism
- John Rawls
- Western philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Republic (Plato)
- John Locke
- Human condition
- Original position
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Conscience
- Leviathan (Hobbes book)
- Stoicism
- The Social Contract
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Natural law
- Plato
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.