Social Contract Theory: Exploring Socialist Contract Culture

Author: Wu Gao Shou
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book explores the essence and specific content of ethical and cultural forms suitable for a socialist market economy from the unique perspective of Marxist practical materialism or practical dialectics, drawing on the outstanding achievements of Western social contract theory, and summarizes it as the "socialist contract cultural form." The book constructs a theoretical system of socialist contract culture centered around the "Three Pillars": "Freedom as the essence of human-centeredness," "Equality as the essence of social-centeredness," and "Democracy as the essence of political-centeredness," with the "Five Principles" (Benefit, Ritual, Righteousness, Trust, and Law) as its fundamental guidelines.