I suppose, to do the discourse of rights justice, there's an implication of mutual interdependence and obligations in the idea of the "social contract", but IIRC the contract is generally seen as a constraint?
I think that's become very much the case in the last 150 years -- and especially in the last 35 (i.e., since the Reagan-Thatcher years)
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Date: 2009-01-20 09:34 pm (UTC)I think that's become very much the case in the last 150 years -- and especially in the last 35 (i.e., since the Reagan-Thatcher years)