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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20020| Title: | Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract |
| Keywords: | P16 D71 D63 B52 A13 ddc:330 Social contract theory Fairness Intentionality Empathy Human Sozialvertrag Gerechtigkeit Evolutionsökonomik |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | This paper delivers a step toward a naturalistic foundation of the social contract. While mainstream social contract theory is based on an original position model that is defined in an aprioristic way, we endogenize its key elements, i.e., develop them out of the individuals? moral common sense. Therefore, the biological and social basis of moral intuitions are explored. In this context, a key adaptation during evolution was the one that enabled humans to understand conspecifics as intentional agents. Since these behavioral aspects are considered to be an exaptation, they are not amenable to direct genetic explanations or to rationalitybased approaches. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20020 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20020 ppn:495256366 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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