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Social contract theories view humans as naturally social while individualism is an invention
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Social contract theories typically treat humans in the pre-political state of nature as isolated or asocial individuals rather than viewing them as naturally social beings whose social bonds precede the contract.

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Wikipedia: Social contract
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OpenAIRE: Introducing Realistic Power Relations into the New Social Contract
2024 · cited by 0
Notes contract theories seek to justify arrangements from an imagined pre-political condition of independent individuals.
OpenAIRE: The The Social Contract Theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Comparative Analysis
2021 · cited by 0
Shows Hobbes and Locke begin with individuals outside community in a state of nature, not viewing humans as naturally social.
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  1. Wikipedia: Social contractreferencerefutes
  2. Book: The Psychology of Sociabilityreferencesame source L2refutesnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  3. Book: Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Dutyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: Sociological Theory in the Classical Erareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Reader's Guide to the Social Sciencesreferencesame source L2no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Book: Roads to Decolonisationreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Book: The Meaning of Propertyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Book: The Making of Social Theoryreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Book: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudencereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Social Ontologyreferencesame source L9no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Social Institutionsreferencesame source L9no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Methodological Individualismreferencesame source L9no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. حقوق فناوریهای نوین: Feasibility of Taxation of Non-Fungible Digital Assets (NFT) in Iranian Jurisprudence and Lawpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Ethical arguments that support intentional animal killingpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. Filosofie Dnes: Environmental Justice and Rawlsian Social Contract Theorypeer-reviewedsame source L12no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. OpenAIRE: Introducing Realistic Power Relations into the New Social Contractpeer-reviewedrefutes
  17. OpenAIRE: The The Social Contract Theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Comparative Analysispeer-reviewedrefutes
  18. OpenAIRE: “Nussbaum’s Critique of Rawls on Animals”peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. OpenAIRE: Environmental Justice and Rawlsian Social Contract Theorypeer-reviewedsame source L12no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. OpenAIRE: A Hybrid Theory of Global Justicepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OpenAIRE: Contract for the state, conjuration against the state: a collision between the thoughts of Locke, Rousseau and Clastrespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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