an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
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Social contract theory was effectively dismissed for its lack of sociology. 社会契约论由于本身缺乏社会学，实际上已经被弃置不提了。
This course is about the legitimacy of a state.We will read J.Rousseau's Social Contract and J.S.Mill's On Liberty. 本课程主要是探讨合法政府的问题，卢梭的社会契约论和弥勒对自由的论述是本课程的研读教材。
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