Fictions are often a good thing. Liberal democracy is based on the "fiction" that everyone is equal at some fundamental level, or at least we should treat eachother "as if" this were the case. Whether we are equal or not "in reality" is hardly the point.
'Men who were naturally sociable would not need to contract together in
order to form society, and would not rationalize society in
contractarian terms...Contract as the foundation of all society is
required only by men who are not inherently sociable'
Also, our 'natural' inclination to "truck and barter" (truck means trick, btw) leads to the formation of society/the public order. But hang on, is there actually any record of barter or is this another one of the economists' theoretical constructs...the 'as if' world?
Also, our 'natural' inclination to "truck and barter" (truck means trick, btw) leads to the formation of society/the public order. But hang on, is there actually any record of barter or is this another one of the economists' theoretical constructs...the 'as if' world?
To think of relations as a contract has its obvious advantages: a certain distancing from the self, and a greater potential for inter-actions; but, on the other hand, the claims to universality that it makes often go side by side with a depersonalization or 'disembedding' of relations. What, exactly, is meant by 'I-We'?
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