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Social Contract

The social contract is an idea in philosophy that at some real or hypothetical point in the past, humans left the state of nature to join together and form societies by mutually agreeing which rights they would enjoy and how they would be governed. The social contract aims to improve the human condition by establishing an authority based on consent which protects certain rights and punishes those who infringe on the rights of others. Although some philosophers deny such an event has ever occurred, the idea was attractive to some thinkers, particularly during the Enlightenment, as a way to justify citizen participation and promote the advantages of one type of government over another.

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The Trial of Socrates

The Trial of Socrates is one of the most famous legal cases in ancient history. Socrates, a classical Greek philosopher, was put on trial in 399 BCE in Athens. He was charged with two main offenses:

Corrupting the youth of Athens: Socrates was accused of leading the younger generation astray by encouraging them to question established norms and authority, particularly the Athenian democracy.

Impiety (asebeia): He was also charged with disrespecting the gods of the city and introducing new deities. This accusation arose from his criticism of traditional religious beliefs and his promotion of more abstract philosophical ideas about divinity, including the concept of a singular, higher moral being or force.

The Context:

Athens had recently undergone political upheaval, including the fall of the Thirty Tyrants, a pro-Spartan oligarchy that briefly ruled the city before democracy was restored. Some of Socrates' followers, like Critias and Alcibiades, had connections to this oligarchic regime. This made him a controversial figure, even though he himself avoided political involvement.

The Trial:

The trial was held in front of 501 jurors, a large jury by modern standards. Socrates defended himself, but his defense was more of a philosophical discourse than an attempt to win the favor of the jury. He argued that he had done nothing wrong, suggesting that his mission of questioning others and seeking wisdom was a service to the city, not a crime. He even referred to himself as a "gadfly," a figure meant to stimulate the city to self-examination.

Rather than appeal to the jurors' emotions, Socrates remained defiant, claiming he had a divine duty to seek and speak the truth. His unwillingness to pander to the court likely contributed to his conviction.

The Death Sentence:

Socrates was found guilty by a narrow margin. After the guilty verdict, there was a second phase of the trial to determine his punishment. He sarcastically proposed that he should be rewarded with free meals for life, as a benefactor of the city. When pressed for a serious proposal, he suggested a small fine, which the jury found insufficient.

The jury ultimately sentenced him to death by drinking hemlock, a poison that induces paralysis and death. Despite offers from his friends to help him escape, Socrates accepted his fate, choosing to abide by the law even though he believed it to be unjust. His calm acceptance of death is famously depicted in Plato's Phaedo, where he engages in philosophical discussion with his friends until the moment of his death.

Socrates' trial and execution are often seen as a pivotal moment in Western philosophy, marking the conflict between free thought and democratic governance. His death also serves as a symbol of the risks involved in challenging societal norms and authority.

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The Social Contract, with its famous opening sentence 'Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains', stated instead that people could only experience true freedom if they lived in a civil society that ensured the rights and well-being of its citizens.

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract)

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the idea of a "smart social contract"

A Smart Social Contract is the blending of two concepts. First, Social Contract Theory. And second, blockchain smart contracts.

Social Contract theory is premised on the idea that individuals agree to the give up some of their powers in order to come together to form a collective security arrangement (i.e. government).

Smart Contracts are self-executing contracts (i.e. they do not need a third party to enforce the terms).

The combination of these two ideas would, hopefully, allow for a greater amount of individual self-determination as well as individual involvement in governance systems. The rest of the posts of this blog will be my attempts at determining what a society would look like if its social contract were self-executing. https://smartsocialcontract.com/2018/06/06/the-beginning-a-k-a-the-idea-of-a-smart-social-contract/

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📖 The Theory of Social Contract 📖

✒The Theory Explained. Foremost in historical importance is the Theory of Social Contract. It postulates a state of nature as the original condition of humanity and asocial contract, deliberately and voluntarily made, as the means of escape therefrom.

Some political thinkers who advocated the theory of Social Contract Were of the opinion that the state of nature was pre-social, whereas others regarded it as pre-political. But whatever it was, the state of nature was antecedent to a government institution, that is, before government establishment. The state of nature was not an organized society. Each man living therein led a life of his own, uncontrolled by any laws of human imposition.

Nor was there any human authority to regulate his relations with others. Men living in the state of nature were subject only to such regulations as nature was supposed to prescribe for them. This code of regulations was given the name of the law of nature or natural law. No two thinkers on the Social, Contract Theory are at one as to the conditions that prevailed in the state of nature.

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The erosion of justice: losing John Rawls to right-wing post-modernity

The erosion of justice: losing John Rawls to right-wing post-modernity

The Oeuvre of John Rawls is an impressive exploration of our idea of justice. It is rightfully widely read in courses on political theory, law, economics, and philosophy. But here’s a message to all those who are reading him in college: Rawls is old news. The general framework of his thinking has perished. Theory, not revolution Let’s start with this question: Does Rawls want to save the world…

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The Social Contract, with its famous opening sentence 'Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains', stated instead that people could only experience true freedom if they lived in a civil society that ensured the rights and well-being of its citizens.

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract)

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Tech-driven changes in job markets threaten social contract with workers: Experts Source | economictimes.indiatimes.com | PTI New Delhi/Geneva: Changes to job markets driven by new technologies, accelerated further by the COVID-19 pandemic, are opening up workers to threats as well as opportunities, experts and industry leaders said on Thursday at a summit organised by WEF. Panelists at the World Economic Forum's Jobs Reset Summit 2020, being held online from October 20-23, also said the 21st-century employment model looks a lot like the 19th century, as gaps are becoming visible in the social protection systems and the pandemic has created extraordinary vulnerabilities for workers. In the next five years, machines will displace an estimated 85 million jobs but create around 97 million new jobs across 15 industries and 26 economies, according to the WEF's Future of Jobs Report 2020. The global recession driven by the pandemic has accelerated this trend and created a highly uncertain outlook for global labour markets. The study also found that the pace of... https://human-engineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/HR-News-26.jpg https://human-engineers.com/tech-driven-changes-in-job-markets-threaten-social-contract-with-workers-experts/?feed_id=13861&_unique_id=61262f947c370 https://human-engineers.com/tech-driven-changes-in-job-markets-threaten-social-contract-with-workers-experts/?feed_id=13861&_unique_id=61262f947c370

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