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Some Shortcomings of the Social Contract

Carmine Gorga

出版	SSRN, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4HIBzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The ideals of the social contract, with social justice at its core, are so compelling as to have kept a multitude of listeners and practitioners enthralled for a long time. What the social contract says that social and economic relations among human beings "ought" to be is indeed what they ought to be. Yet, the practice of the social contract is dismal. Why this dysfunction? One answer is simple: The social contract was born an orphan. Since it consciously rejected the past, it believed it had no history to rely upon. While this notion is still widespread, it is not true. There is a splendid history behind the social contract: both in the sacral and in the secular tradition. Once that tradition is unearthed, defined as the moral contract, it provides guidance both in the analysis of some of the shortcomings of current practices and the provision of long term solutions to the "social problem" through the lenses of a set of recommendations that can be characterized as constituting the legal contract.