sense of justice: and social cooperation, 57;
normal fact about people (Hume) 182;
our equal capacity for (Rousseau), 219; in
Mill, and principle of utility, 271–272
sensible knave, in Hume, 182, 185
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 105, 106, 108, 417, 418,
421, 453
Sidgwick, Henry, 162, 176, 375–415; jus-
tification of principle of utility, 257
slavery (Marx on): and surplus labor, 324,
327; contract into, void under capitalism,
340; incompatible with capitalism, 340–
341
slaves, lack of will of, 217
Smith, Adam, 162, 393
social compact. See social contract
social contract: and legitimate political or-
der, 13–14; features of, 13–20; as idea of
reason in Kant, 14–15; actual vs. non-his-
torical, 14–15; different views of, 14–16;
actual vs. hypothetical, 15; as test of po-
litical legitimacy or obligation, 15; nature
of parties in, 16–17; initial situations in,
16–20; knowledge of parties within, 17;
involves normalization of interests, 226;
vs. utilitarianism, 399
social contract (Hobbes): and Hobbes’s ma-
terialism, 29–30; gives philosophical
knowledge of the Leviathan, 30;
Hobbes’s interpretation of, 30–35; as ana-
lytical device, 31; gives power to the sov-
ereign, 31; as authorization of the sover-
eign, 32–33, 80–82; hypothetical, not
actual, 33, 34; three possible interpreta-
tions in Hobbes, 34–35; lifts us out of
state of nature, 77, 90–91; sovereign is
not party to, 80–81, 91; terms of, in
Hobbes, 81–82; as pact of submission, 93
social contract (Locke): role of in Hobbes
vs. Locke, 107, 122, 160; give up natural
right to execute punishment, 118–119;
and fundamental law of nature (FLN),
119; Locke’s use of “social compact,”
123–124; unites the people into political
society, 123–124; originating consent in,
124–125; as test of political legitimacy,
128–129, 172; and “ideal history,” 129–
130, 131; hypothetical but historical,
131; by the people, not with the govern-
ment, 136; Locke’s account of property
in, 138–139; and class state, 150; ratio-
nality of class state in Locke’s, 153–155;
intuitive idea of, is agreement, 159;
Hume’s critique of Locke’s, 165–173;
has no correspondence to facts (Hume),
167; two parts to Locke’s account of,
171; Locke’s criterion, 174–175
social contract (Rousseau): the first was
fraudulent, 202–203; relation to Rous-
seau’s Second Discourse, 206–207; prob-
lem of, 207, 214–215, 219–220; its as-
sumptions and the General Will, 214–
218; and political conception of justice,
215–216; Rousseau’s idea of, 216–222;
four assumptions of, 217–219; involves
normalization of interests, 226; achieves
moral and civil freedom, 235; assumes
social interdependence, 236, 240; pres-
ent-time interpretation, 236; society of,
can come about in many ways, 241–242;
and freedom, 241–244; and equality of
citizens, 246–247; and equality at high-
est level, 247–248
social cooperation: fair terms of, 20; re-
quires effective sovereign, 36; two
parts, rational advantage and fair
terms, 56; differs from efficient coordi-
nation of social activity, 56; and reci-
procity, 56–57; capabilities for, 57; de-
fined, 62–63; and reciprocity, 87; and
mutuality, 87
social institutions: do not change human
nature for Hobbes, 42; and human na-
ture, 48; reasonable self-restraint and
fairness essential to, 87
socialism: liberal, four elements of, 323;
consequence of Marx’s attitudes to jus-
tice for, 337; use of price-mechanism in,
350; no exploitation or unpaid labor un-
der, 364; first defect, 366–367
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