Essays on Social Contract Theory

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Introduction and Context

The focus of this report is about sustainable event management. It aims to look at a major event and the sustainability policy of that event. The report briefly analyses the policy versus its actual implementation in real-life. The report reviews the earlier literature about sustainable event management. It examines the various theories related to corporate social responsibility and ISO 20121, which is the international standard for sustainable event management. The report then relates the findings at the present event to the sustainability theory. The report then presents the conclusions.

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The current paper critically evaluates the research work based on the negative impact of Zika Virus on the physical conditions of people. The purpose of the paper is to develop an understanding of Zika Virus by appraising and critiquing its effects and water pollution on the players who will be coming to Rio, Brazil for Summer Olympic Games. The research paper will make use of the social contract theory that explains that individuals’ ethical and opinionated responsibilities are dependent on the agreement or conformity to the social order in which they exist. There are hundreds of athletic players expected ...

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Introduction Established by the Greek statesman, Solon, sometime in the 600 B.C., voting has always been a key feature of democracy. The international community regards it as the most basic human right, which should be protected and guaranteed to all citizens of a country as stipulated by internal human rights laws. A government by the people must have the participation of the people, which is realized through suffrage. Today, voting rights are already universally practiced, yet there are certain circumstances wherein such right is taken away by the state. In the United States, a person will lose ...

The political philosophies of Thomas More, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke show a progression in political thought in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Thomas More was a Christian Humanist whose critiques of politics in Renaissance Europe were expressed in his most famous work, Utopia, published in 1516. In Utopia, More contrasts the corruption, chaos, and poverty of the real world with an invented society, Utopia, where the laws are simple, everyone is equal, and things are owned communally instead of being private property. His ideas would later become important to the development of socialism, but in his ...

The line between matters such as good and evil, just and unjust codes and Pandects is a thin one, and these matters have become highly controversial over the years . The laws governing different countries and religion have also been in conflict over the years. One reason for these controversies is that all countries have more than one religion practiced by the citizens of the country in question. The law of God justifies that which is holy, righteous and just. According to Hobbes, the law by the government is absolute and individuals have a moral obligation to abide by these ...

John Locke’s Social Contract Theory:

Introduction: The Social Contract Theory argues that people’s morals and obligations depend on an agreement among them in order to form the society in which they reside. John Locke's argues that the state of nature of man is perfect, and no one is to interfere each other’s’ lives. He states that even though the state of nature is one without punishment from the authority, it is not pre-moral (Friend, 2004). In Hobbes's argument, he points out that without identification and recognition of a universal authority, chaos is the order of man. In contrast to this, Locke and ...

The film our group watched to complete this assignment was the 2006 crime drama The Departed, starring Leonard DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen and Jack Nicholson (The Departed). Beginning in the first few minutes and continuing to the end, our group found a number of ethical issues and dilemmas. One of the most significant ethical issues that our group found was the decision by the seemingly moral and ethically strong police officer Qeenan to persuade the new police recruit Billy Costigan to infiltrate the local mob. Qeenan’s recruitment of Costigan, presents a number of interesting ethical questions such ...

The eighteenth century marked a period of diverse changes in Europe’s politics, philosophy, and science fields due to the influence of many scholars in what is referred to as the age of enlightenment (Kramnick, 1995). The main argument that the academicians and researchers in that period proposed that there were ways that would enable the humans to improve themselves through rational change. The scholars questioned the traditional approaches to those fields with many publications aiming to produce multiple changes especially in the area of philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau counts as one of the most influential contributors of the age ...

QUESTION 1

Mary is a Conscientious Moral Agent. Identify a moral argument or arguments that Mary can apply in this case. Use the facts of this case to explain the moral reasoning and moral principle(s) that Mary applies in this case.

ANSWER: Given the condition in which Mary was in, it is important that she addresses the situation as impartial as she can be. In this particular case, she should therefore forget that she is the mother of one of the students in the place of employment of one of their patients in the hospital who was having psychological health issues. ...

Emotivism is a frame of thought that is of the opinion that matters ethics do not express propositions but in essence they express emotional attitudes. This therefore discredits ethics as a genuine and unbiased frame of thought and relegates it to the mere emotions of the person in question. Thus matters ethics are nothing more than a person expressing their emotions. This attaches an emotional paradigm to ethics ass a frame of thought and eliminates the matter of neutrality or rather lack of biasness from ethics as a discipline. Thus, according to emotivism moral judgments are nothing more than strong and firm expression of emotions ...

Ethical and cultural relativism have been defined as differences in opinion among people from different cultures as a result of their belonging to such cultures. Put differently, as a result of growing up in different cultural environments, people acquire certain sets of beliefs which are distinct from those of persons who grew up in other cultures. The end result is that both groups of persons have different beliefs about what is right or wrong as a result of the cultural conditioning that they have undergone. Proponents of the cultural relativism school of thought have argued that as a result of these differences in ...

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Social Contract Theory: Social Contract Theory was founded by Thomas Hobbes, a renowned English philosopher. According to this theory, the moral and political obligations of individuals depend upon an agreement (contract) among them for the formation of the society they belong to. The purpose of this contract is the establishment of a constitutional act for keeping the political body subordinate to moral values. Hobbes believes that social contract makes it possible for human beings to continue their survival on this planet. He maintained that by contracting socially, men surrender their inherent liberties for enjoying the safety and ...

Social Contracts as proposed by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Numerous psychologists have contributed immensely to the field of psychology and human behavior and a few famous such psychologists are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau, among other who have contributed largely to the field of psychology. All the above mentioned psychologists are exemplary thinkers as each one of them has grappled to an exceptional extent in discussing the problem of origin. Considering Locke, this encompasses the origin of the psychic body of the individual; and while with Hobbes, it encompasses the origin of the social organization of the humankind. The theory of Social Contracts as proposed by Thomas Hobbes ...

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Food industry is the largest and the most critical part of our society. As a matter of fact, it has already reached an estimated sales of four trillion dollars globally in 2002 (Regmi and Gehlhar, 2005). Moreover, the food industry is the main producer of nutrition for the entire population. Dell’Aquila and Cioffi (2004) focused on fresh vegetables and fruits and discusses that EU rules are counterproductive by increasing neither the import nor the export of quality products. Vancauteren and De Frahan (2006) estimated a model called the structural gravity, and stated that bringing together of food policies ...

- Socrates takes this to mean that the Oracle meant that no man is wise because all men do not know that they do not know. Therefore, Socrates refuses to accept that he is the wisest because if he did, he would have implied that he was wise, whereas he knew that he was not. Socrates believes that his source of knowledge is self examination and introspective assessment of one’s thoughts, characteristics, emotions, and actions. Socrates believes in distributing of wisdom to others, making goodness come first while wealth follows it, which he advised the Citizens of Athens ...

The relationship between nature, the state and individuals is a complex one; political philosophers have been studying these relationships ever since the dawn of time, with the goal being to determine the best way in which the people relate to nature. Based on the ideas of philosopher John Locke, the state does not have the ability to infringe upon the right of people to determine their own destiny; he believes that mankind’s best state is to bring the best parts of their natural instincts into society, collecting together into a “state of perfect freedom.” Conversely, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that ...

The American Forefathers were greatly influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a stalwart of Enlightenment. His social contract theory had enormous impact on the role of the government in the American society. His political beliefs form the basis of the omnipotent American Constitution. Also, quite a number of eminent figures of the history of America have been influenced by Rousseau’s philosophy. Rousseau believed that the paramount authority lies with the common people and thus championed democracy. He states in The Social Contract that man comes in this world free. Also, controls which are governed by a freely formed governmental institution are good. ...

The relationship between the state and individuals is a complex one; political philosophers have explored this dynamic for centuries, if not millennia, to figure out the best way in which the people can interact with their government. According to right-libertarian philosopher John Locke, the state has no say in the rights of individuals to determine their own destiny; however, famed Greek philosopher Aristotle believes the state to be the highest form of political community (polis), where individuals serve the state and public service is preferable to private life. These two philosophies are diametrically opposed, falling under two conflicting extremes about ...

When we consider the morality of a state Bentham says moral actions are those which produce the most happiness for the greatest number of people, so it’s not as simple as revenge in terms of something like justice. You first need to calculate the pleasure over the pain caused. First of all utilitarianism simply put is the theory of the greatest happiness to the greatest number, which is a theory that is commonly assimilated today in politics and everyday life, increasing the amount of happiness in the world is a common goal everyone can share. Now the idea of utility ...

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Green, T. H. (1882). Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy. Mander, W. J. & Dimova-Cookson, M. Oxford University Press, (2006). This a treatise on political philosopher T.H Green arguably one of the creators of the welfare state. I used this work to illustrate the motivations of the state for their use of punishment highlighting the fact that harsh punishment such as the death penalty is a direct threat of violence to the public and this is a negative influence on crime. Locke, John (1689) Two Treatises of Government This work is on the functions of government, I picked this out ...

Response: Private Property and Free Enterprise: Good or Bad?

According to the prompt, "Private property and free enterprise is a source of enmity, conflict and inequality, and it is therefore incompatible with a free, equal and healthy democracy." This is an interesting question; the implication within the sentence is that there is a fundamental incompatibility with free enterprise and an effective democracy. In order to address whether or not this statement is correct, it is necessary to consult some of the great voices in economic thought; through the perspectives of Marx, Rawls, Mill and Hobbes, the importance of capitalism to a just and equitable democracy will be explored. While people like Hobbes ...

Introduction

The American democracy stands out as one of the most stable and effective democracies. Since the declaration of Independence by the founding fathers, America has undergone tremendous changes that have seen it through progress. The process has been evolutionary and painful, often buoyed with bloodshed, wars and unending quests for justice. It is this paper’s contention that the democracy of America was influenced by four main theorists whose works continues to determine governance and the system of government. The theorists include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron Montesquieu and A.V. Dicey. This paper would canvass their theories, how they ...

Introduction

Social Contract Theory according to Erckel (2009) is the view that an individual’s ethical or political responsibilities depends on an agreement or a contract among them to form the society in which they dwell. Social Contract Theory in reference to Erckel (2009) is rightly associated with the modern moral theory and it has been given full description and justification by Thomas Hobbes. Arguably, Hobbes, Jean-Jacques and John Locke are the best acknowledged proponents of this extremely influential theory that has been one of the dominant theories within ethical, moral and political theory all through the history of the modern ...

Social justice can be defined as a) Historical inequities that affect present problems should be fixed until the real inequities no longer exist or have been addressed; b) the idea that wealth, power, and status should be re-distributed for the sake of the individual, the community, and society as a whole; or c) the responsibility of the government (or those who hold significant power) to ensure an essential quality of life for all its citizens. All of these relate directly to a country's historical values and economy, and have a dramatic effect on minorities and those not in power. However, there are distinct ...

In the realm of Western political philosophy, there are many political theories that are found in the dominant discourse. First, there is social contract theory, or contractarian theory; this theory states that individuals must adhere to the communal sense of good and evil in order to maintain that society. According to Hobbes, there is a struggle between the laws and rights of nature of all human beings. People have the right, or the liberty, to do whatever they can to stave off death and see to their interests; however, in order to interact with a group of other human beings, they ...

Introduction

Ethical dilemmas are an integral part of every aspect of human life today. Apparently ethical dilemmas are among the principal factors that make the process of decision making more complicated. The major reason why ethical dilemmas make decision making complicated is because they pose two possible answers to a situation, both appearing to be correct. In an ethical dilemma, either side has a strong argument behind its decision. Worth noting is the fact that ethical dilemmas exist in all fields of life, ranging from the world of medicine to the world of business. Arguably, business is among the widest fields of human ...

Comparison and Contrast: Social Control and Social Learning Theories

Introduction People often think that what motivates criminals to commit crimes is brought about by a need to steal money from others, a mental or drug problem that leads to perpetration of rape or heinous crimes, or even masked fear and anger. Some commit crimes due to repeated exposure to situations that support a negative behavior. Some do it due to inferiority complex in childhood, thus, they strive for superiority in adulthood. There are various other reasons for committing crimes and these can be explained by criminological theories. For the purpose of the presentation, the criminological theories that will be the ...

Professional Code of Ethics

There are various types of ethical theories however they can be fundamentally classified into two categories: Teleological and Deontological (Bottaro, 2007). Teleological are those based on the purpose of choosing a person’s actions to maximize the value of the expected consequences of the actions. Deontological theories are those based on the aim of choosing a person’s actions in regard to the standards required or obligations to be met. In regard to teleological theories, one’s actions are morally right if they bring about the best result in the particular situation. It is either the goodness or badness of the ...

The Social Contract Theory

The social contract theory states how the life of a person is dependent on a contract among people to form a society in which they live. It is a theory that tries to explain the morals and political ways of life of a person. Several theorists have stated their own versions of the theory, and each of the versions has had its share of criticism and support. Based on the most original versions of the theory, Socrates explains why as a prisoner, he should stay in prison and accept whatever sentence is passed on him, rather than escape and go to another city or ...