Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism

重写社会契约：技术、生态、极端主义

• 批准号: FT200100813
• 负责人: A/Prof Christopher Watkin
• 金额: $ 57.15万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-02-25 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT200100813
• 关键词: Rewriting; Social; Contract; Technology; Ecology

This project aims to develop a new approach to understanding the purpose and power of social contracts: implicit agreements among members of a society to cooperate for mutual benefit. Australia’s post-war prosperity has relied on a robust social contract, but it is under increasing strain today from new technological, environmental and socio-political realities. Using techniques from philosophy and social theory, this project seeks to examine the main pressures on the social contract today, and to propose how it can be reinforced. Intended benefits include strengthening social cohesion through better understanding the causes of reduced wellbeing, social fragmentation and unrest, and through proposing ways to mitigate their costly effects.

该项目旨在开发一种新的方法来理解社会契约的目的和力量：社会成员之间为互惠互利而合作的隐性协议。澳大利亚战后的繁荣依赖于强大的社会契约，但今天它正面临新技术、环境和社会政治现实的日益严峻的压力。该项目利用哲学和社会理论中的技术，旨在研究当今社会契约的主要压力，并提出如何加强社会契约的建议。预期的好处包括通过更好地了解福祉下降、社会分裂和动荡的原因，以及通过提出减轻其代价高昂的影响的方法，加强社会凝聚力。