Legitimacy lies in the legally binding contract
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:56 am
Collectivist" The interests of the individual are less important than the collective interest of some group, such as tribe, class or race. The individual is the product of the larger entity and is not isolated in time and space but is linked to that entity in its past and its future. The entity may be politically made (class) natural (race) or a combination of the political and the natural (nation).
Legitimacy lies in the quest for human harmony with certain natural laws. 2) "Utilitarian" The interests of the individual are less important than the collective interests of humanity as a whole as represented in the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Legitimacy lies in the quest for fairness and the combating phone number list of human suffering.
3) "Libertarian" The interests of the individual are supreme because we only know ourselves as individuals and all collective identities are a kind of superstition.
4) "Religious" The interests of the individual are best served in preparing him or her for life beyond this world. This world is only a testing ground or a preparation or the individual life one of any lives.
1 and 4 are romantic, 2 and 3 are pragmatic. 2 and 3 believe in human rights as the groundstone of civilized society. 4 believes that life is sacred but not necessarily in human rights. 1 believes that integrity as the fulfillment of duty is higher than individual self-preservation and that human rights are given under conditions. 1 and 3 are "nature based" in that they base their arguments on an appeal to the evidence of observed facts about life.
Legitimacy lies in the quest for human harmony with certain natural laws. 2) "Utilitarian" The interests of the individual are less important than the collective interests of humanity as a whole as represented in the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Legitimacy lies in the quest for fairness and the combating phone number list of human suffering.
3) "Libertarian" The interests of the individual are supreme because we only know ourselves as individuals and all collective identities are a kind of superstition.
4) "Religious" The interests of the individual are best served in preparing him or her for life beyond this world. This world is only a testing ground or a preparation or the individual life one of any lives.
1 and 4 are romantic, 2 and 3 are pragmatic. 2 and 3 believe in human rights as the groundstone of civilized society. 4 believes that life is sacred but not necessarily in human rights. 1 believes that integrity as the fulfillment of duty is higher than individual self-preservation and that human rights are given under conditions. 1 and 3 are "nature based" in that they base their arguments on an appeal to the evidence of observed facts about life.