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The Social Contract: Who Needs It?

Peter Corning

March 21, 2018

Let’s begin with some political theory. Aristotle, in his great treatise, the Politics, concluded that there are, basically, only two different kinds of governments in terms of the outcomes for a society — those that serve the common good, or the public interest, and those that have been co-opted to serve the self-interests of the people who hold political power.

The Biosocial Contract (Part 1): An Ideology for the Fair Society

Peter Corning

January 20, 2018

It’s not what you think. In the age of texting and tweets, our whole society seems to suffer from an attention deficit disorder. So, let me begin with a disclaimer. A Biosocial Contract (or Biosocialism for short) has nothing to do with socialism in any one of its many different forms. If anything, its philosophical roots could be traced back to Plato’s Republic and The Laws (I’ll explain later on). In fact, the theoretical foundation and basic assumptions of Biosocialism are rooted in evolutionary biology and the emerging science of human nature – quite unlike the other “isms” that are out there in our politics.