Social Contracts
Channel: Stephen Downes
Date: 17/11/2021

In this presentation we look at the history and present day idea that we create ethics by agreement through a social contract, beginning with the early theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, continuing through the present day to Rawls, and exploring various objections, communitarian theories, and the social ethic of Ubuntu. Part of the online course Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care https://ethics.mooc.ca