Social Contract for Science
The social contract for science is an evocative ideological construct used to describe the relationship between the political and scientific communities. Participants in sc...
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Social Contract Theory
The idea of a social contract can have broad and narrow meanings. In the broad sense a social contract can simply be short hand for expectations in relations between individuals...
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Social Contract [addendum]
Contemporary social contract theory is practically identified with the work of John Rawls (1921–2002). In his best known book, A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to ...
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Social Contract
"Social contract" is the name given to a group of related and overlapping concepts and traditions in political theory. Like other such aggregations in philosophy and inte...
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Contractualism
Contractualism, as a distinctive account of moral reasoning, was originally advanced by T. M. Scanlon in his widely admired paper "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (1982...
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"The current federal system of government in the United States is failing to meet its social contract obligations to the American people." There is nothing closer to the truth than this statement. Wh...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
FRENCH REVOLUTION (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Unveiling his domestic reform agenda in Paris Tuesday, Nicolas
Sarkozy called for '...
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The Supreme Court opened preliminary investigations into four more politicians for alleged ties to illegal right-wing militias after it was revealed they signed a 2001 letter of understanding with ...
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Washington (dpa) - The CIA released hundreds of pages of documents
Tuesday outlining a range of questionable and in some cases illegal
activities that included assassination...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday
sought to defuse growing ethnic tension in this multi-racial country,
appealing for tolerance and understanding as talks of an earl...
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What determines a person's level of success? Is it his charisma, her willingness to work long hours, his MBA from Stanford or Harvard?Flip Flippen, a psychotherapist and business coach in College S...
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Hey, Hillary!
Weren’t the vultures in South Carolina just bananas? Had you ever see them picking at the furry meat on the side of the road like that?
Or maybe you were busy.
So Teddy Kenned...
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Minsk (dpa) - Guaranteed supplies of low-cost powdered milk and
baby formula have long been a priority for Belarus' authoritarian
President Aleksander Lukashenko, a former c...
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WASHINGTON — Outrage over the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes is but one element of the distress about the agency by Republican intelligence watchdogs in Congress. "It is acting as t...
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the l...
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“Let me live again!”
Cable talk-show host Joe Scarborough was standing near the front windows of Christopher Hitchens’ enormous apartment in Washington’s embassy-heavy Kalor...
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Social Contract for Science
Social Contract [addendum]
Does the Us Government Still Uphold the Social Contract?
U.S. editorial excerpts
