Arthur Charpentier on Nostr: "Liberal political philosophy draws on social contract theory, which argues that ...

"Liberal political philosophy draws on social contract theory, which argues that society was forged by a contract between rational, autonomous men in a state of nature. The solidarists rejected the premise of this abstraction. Instead, they argued that from the moment we are born, we are already enmeshed in quasi-contracts: we inherit a world made by those who came before us, and we are indebted to the future generations to whom we will leave the world when we pass on." https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/for-a-solidarity-state/