The dual (double) government-how two governments function-using Immanuel Kant’s duty ethics and the Social Contrast Theory.
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social_contract_theory.pptxSocial Contract Theory
Social contract theory of ethics
Specific theory of ethics
Social Contract theory:
“The demands of morality are fixed by the agreements that humans make to regulate their social interaction, and we should obey these demands because we have agreed to them.”
“Morality consists in the set of rules, governing behavior, that rational people will accept, on the condition that others accept them as well.”
(p 83)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
The Social Production of Liberty
“Man is/was born free, and everywhere he is in chains…”
The Social Contract
How do we organize our social lives so that we can enjoy civil liberty?
How do we create a set of social institutions so that we trade natural liberty for civil liberty
Rousseau builds his theory by using our dependence as the means of securing our liberty
Only way civil liberty will work is if it is a product of social cooperation
The Social Contract
“One who dares to undertake the founding of a people should feel that he is capable of changing human nature, so to speak; of transforming each individual, who by himself is a perfect and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole from which this individual receives, in a sense, his life and his being; of altering man’s constitution in order to strengthen it; of substituting a partial and moral existence for the physical and independent existence we have received from nature” (Book 2, chp. vii).
The Social Contract
The only way civil liberty will work is if it is a product of social cooperation
The Social Contract
Society is not a club, not a voluntary organization
The Social Contract
In other words, we need to develop a social decision making process whereby we can all submit to and become dependent on no one in particular
Need some sort of democracy where each person counts equally
Example:
Prisoner’s Dilemma: People’s interests are affected not only by what they do but by what other people do as well.
