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- Title
Três imagens do contrato social: Estado, moralidade e direitos humanos.
- Authors
e Araujo, Marcelo
- Abstract
This paper examines three different "images" of the social contract. The first image concerns the reasons for our accepting the existence of some form of political authority which has the power and the legitimacy to create laws and impose sanctions upon its citizens. The second image of the contract concerns reasons for our accepting the requirements of morality and the acquisition of a sense of justice. The third image concerns the reasons for the establishment of limits for the interference of state power in our lives. These limits are characterized in terms of human rights. The third image of the social contract elucidates in which sense human rights are universal rights, but it denies that there are any innate or natural rights.
- Subjects
SOCIAL contract; CONTRACTARIANISM (Ethics); STATE, The; HUMAN rights -- Philosophy; BENTHAM, Jeremy, 1748-1832; JUSTICE &; ethics; ETHICS
- Publication
Filosofia UNISINOS, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 2, p100
- ISSN
1519-5023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/fsu.2014.152.02