The Social Contract (idea) by futurebird




 Naturalistic       Metaphysical                Metaphysical
      |               nonteleological             teleological
      |                    |                             |
   Hobbes                |                             |
      |                 Locke                      Bentham
   Hume                  |                             |
     ||                 Rousseau                       |
     ||                    |                          Mill
     ||                  Kant                          |
     ||                    |                             |
     ||                  Rawls      +-----------------+  |
     ||                    | |      |                 |  |
     ||                    | +------+               Harsanyi
     ||                    V                          V  V
     ||              +-----------------------+      +------------------------+
     |+------------> |egalitarianism         |      |utilitarianism          |
     |               +-----------------------+      +------------------------+
     +--------------------------------------------------------^






              This shows how various thinkers arrived
              at  one or the other of the rival social
              contract theories.

Source : Game Theory and the Social Contract: vol2 by Ken Binmore

Social Contract Theory	The Prisoner's Dilemma and Social Contract Theory on a racquetball court	social contract	Pedantocracy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Infinity is a number	A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have	A Discourse on Inequality
the draft	Debian Social Contract	The Individual in the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment	The Objectivist Ethics
egalitarianism	totalitarianism	What does it mean to be free?	In Our Time
June 19, 2005	In Defense of Anarchism	The Racial Contract	USA PATRIOT Act
On Liberty	Chautauqua	The Republic	monarchy