Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism

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含协议。澳大利亚战后的繁荣依赖于强大的社会契约，但今天，由于新的技术、环境和社会政治现实，它正面临越来越大的压力。利用哲学和社会理论的技术，本项目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，通过更好地了解幸福感下降、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。

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.