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Some Thoughts on Civil Society in Eastern Europe and the Lockean Contractarian Approach
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In this paper, it is suggested that the contractarian approach should be used to analyse the relationship between independent groups and the state of the Soviet type, and the utility of the model of the totalitarian state in understanding the origin of independent groups is discussed.Abstract:
Neither the concept of the totalitarian system nor the newly worked-out notion of ‘socialist civil society’ can express the social and political phenomenon of the rise and growth of independent groups and movements in Eastern Europe. Rather, it is suggested here that the Lockean contractarian approach should be used. This embraces mutually interacting ethical, empirical and analytic arguments which would take into consideration the state, the independent groups organized outside it, and the relationships between them. The utility of the model of the totalitarian state in understanding the origin of independent groups is discussed here. Lockean multidimensional individualism is suggested as a category expressing the political character of these groups, and Lockean teaching on absolute monarchy—a special form of the state of nature—is advanced as the means for analysing the relationship between these groups and the state of the Soviet type.read more
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On the Search for Civil Society in China
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Institutional Amphibiousness and the Transition from Communism: The Case of China
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The application of Rousseau's theory of social contract to corporate governance
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Human Nature, Social Engineering, and The Reemergence of Civil Society*
TL;DR: The recent spectacular establishment of parliamentary democracies and market economies in Eastern Europe and the even more breathtaking events in most Soviet republics, which should culminate in the reemergence of the Baltic nations as independent states, may be convincingly conceived of as the triumph of civil society over the Marxist-Leninist system as discussed by the authors.
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Justice and the Interpretation of Locke's Political Theory:
TL;DR: The two most powerful and incisive recent interpretations of Locke's political philosophy have been produced by men who feel a shared antipathy to contemporary liberalism and contemporary capitalism and who ascribe to Locke a deep affinity with these uiisavoury developments as mentioned in this paper.
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On locke's state of nature*
TL;DR: Locke's Two Treatises use the "state of nature" to refer to a core condition in which human persons lack an authoritative, common, human superior, which is the original condition of all human peoples but which became such an inconvenience for some peoples as their social and economic life develops that they leave it by forming government, but which remains as the condition of some peoples, Locke thought, in his own day as mentioned in this paper.