2. Within the Social Contract Theory, living within a society requires us to have rules and laws. This gives people the groundwork for how people and governments cooperate. Individuals receive stability when they live in a social structure. This gives them security from other individuals that may want to do them wrong. In order for them to receive this protection, they have to give up some freedoms, such as being able to steal without receiving punishment. Individuals need to commit to helping make society secure, and happy. In this case study the town manager of a beach town needs to make a recommendation to the Board of Selectmen on the access to the currently restricted access beach within their town due to objections from nearby towns. …show more content…
A higher fee would be charged to non-residents to utilize the parking lots, which will help pay for taxes that the town residents pay on the lots. The residents of the beach town would be unhappy with this decision because it makes it much harder for them to find parking for the beach. Despite that this would please the other communities because it will give them better access to the beach. They may not like the higher parking fees but the access to the beach may outweigh that downfall. Third, would be to give full access to only one of the adjacent communities due to the historical connection that they have with the beach town. This may be acceptable to the beach town because of the connections they have within that town but it will cause animosity within the other outlying towns. This may also cause legal consequences for the …show more content…
If not, everyone will feel the liberty to do as they please which will cause chaos and resentment. Enforcement of the social contract within the town will be carried out by the Board of Selectmen and town authorities. I think the best option under the Social Contract Theory would actually be a little bit different from the recommended suggestions. I think keeping things equal between all citizens will be the best possible solution for everyone. The town should keep the parking lots the current size that they are to keep the beach population to a manageable and safe level for everyone visiting. Parking meters should then be installed within those parking lots, giving open access to all towns and individuals. By putting in the parking meters this will allow everyone equal access to the beaches. Due to the parking meters being for a specific amount of time, individuals will only be able to be parked in the spot for that amount of time. When the time is up and they leave this allows others to come in and use the beach, cutting down on the people not being able to get parking spots. The money from the meters will help to maintain the beaches as well as the parking lots. The town may also make money with the meters to put back into the town for their residents. Expired meters will receive a parking ticket which will also provide the city with
The choice to lower the amount of spaces available is to leave room for a nice park. At the front of the parking lot will be a kiosk and two gates where tourists will grab a ticket and also pay as they leave. This will ensure that the fee of five dollars per hour is being paid by keeping those in who haven’t paid it. The money from that fee would go to maintain the parking lot and bettering the park. To not build a parking garage at this time may anger some businesses, but the city will agree to look into the issue again in five years and decide then what should be done, if
In the early 1900s it was a challenge to come up with a scheme to build on oceanfront property and attract people to come there. Now, generations later, the little town of Seaside Heights has received so much attention that it’s a wonder they haven’t transplanted The Brooklyn Bridge to Toms River just so tourists would be more comfortable crossing into the land of sea, sun and sin. The lure of Seaside Heights has attracted every legion of people from all over the tri-state area to this family oriented town for years.
However this Social Contract theory acknowledge that cooperate is not the only scenario. The Prisoner’s Dilemma explains what happen if we do not cooperate with one another. Such dilemma explains that been rational, our fist intent in a competition is to get as much possible benefits as we can. Taking into consideration that this means less benefits for any other person. Russ Shafer-Landau explain The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a scenario introduced by economies. In such scenario are caught two thieves, AL and BOB, and they are send to separated rooms. They have four options. Fist option, both remind silence and they get two years in jail. Second option, both betrayal and get four years. Third option, AL remind silence and BOB betrays. Fourth option, AL betrays and BOB remind silence. This scenario demonstrates that AL and BOB or even anyone will do better off by limiting their self-interest and cooperate. Social Contract theory acknowledges that moral principles are universal. Since Social Contract is based in the belief that rules would be accepted by free, equal and rational people, then the rules they select to be govern by must be moral. (2014 The Fundaments of Ethics, p.199) also, this theory help us to
The City of Progress recommendations to best balance resident interest in bed and breakfasts and to increase tourism, while limiting neighborhood disturbances, focusses on sustainable development agreements and controls. The following paper will explore the best practices to allow the planning department and council to meet all resident objectives and allow for a sustainable tourism industry. Senior Planning recommendations for maintainable growth and resident satisfaction include controls/discretionary use and/or development agreements in order to deal with the residents’ intent on providing bed and breakfast in its community. These options give council flexibility, while at the same time control when giving permissions to residents for
2. Identify all those affected by the decision. Consider individuals and organizations as well as the community.
Some considerations are particular to the town. Users must determine, first of all, whether it is even possible to go from one point to another. This is especially important for those who are not able to walk long distances. Riders must also decide whether the restrictions of a certain mode - say, timetables for trains, or driving laws - are acceptable.
This mutual transference of rights is called a contract, or covenant. By adhering to the contract, a man gives up whatever rights set forth by the contract. However, man cannot give up his right to defend himself, for the entire purpose of entering the contract is self-preservation. Once the contract is formed, one must obey Hobbes’ third law of nature, which is to adhere to the contract (Leviathan 1, 14)...
Man is increasingly intrigued by human nature and how society functions. Because of this interest, there is a plethora of concepts surrounding man and his condition. The social contract, an agreement among individuals where individuals must sacrifice something for protection, is a cornerstone in the operation of society. Over the years, various social contract theorists have worked to understand the ties that bind man. Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Friedrich Nietzsche, each felt constrained by their times, and because of this introduced radical concepts surrounding the social contract. Each of the philosophers’ revolutionary concepts challenges power and even though their arguments differ dramatically Nietzsche can be viewed as the most radical of the three.
Philosophers have been concerned with the theories of a social contract for thousands of years. Plato mentions the concept in Crito and in Republic. These theories have stemmed from the concept of justice and for our society to be just. I will look at the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and finally with John Rawls after which a overall view into the function of a social contract can be derived as well as any problems with the theory(s).
Social contract theory is a philosophy about the nature of morality and the origins of society. Its adherents believe “social organization rests on a contract or compact which the people have made among themselves” (Reese, 533). This concept was first articulated by the Sophists, who said societies are not natural occurrences but rather the result of a consensus of people (Reese 533). Plato expresses these ideas in The Republic when he says that society is created to meet human needs (Encyclopedia 1). Various other philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, and Richard Hooker, incorporated the concept of a social contract in their applications to political theory (Encyclopedia 1). None of these philosophers, however, made the social contract their primary focus. They included the theory as just one component of their main philosophies. It wasn’t until much later that social contract theory was developed as a unique and separate philosophy.
Why do students and their parents pay such a large amount of money to attend the University of Dayton if there is not going to be any place for parking? I am a first year student at the university so I understand that I am not permitted to have my car on campus (Handbook). My boyfriend on the other hand, lives at least a half hour away and comes to visit me several times a week. He arrives and has to drive for a very long time trying to find a place to park where he will not receive a ticket. He has tried to park everywhere we can think of, but it never seems to work out. The first few times he came over public safety/the police department was willing to give out temporary permits for visitors and people staying overnight. They allowed the driver to park in the main parking lot, which is in the middle of campus as long as they were gone by eight or nine in the morning so university workers would have the spaces to park. Public safety decided to do away with temporary permits because it was becoming a hassle for them. So as my boyfriend would still come to visit he had to hunt even harder for a space not knowing whether they would be giving tickets or not. He parked off the university in the neighborhood and received a ticket from the city police for being parked on the street. It seems that no matter where he parks he is going to get a ticket and the prices go up each time he receives one, eventually they will put a boot on his tire so he cannot leave. It costs over one-hundred dollars to get it removed. After a series of tickets the will tow your car and not let the driver back on campus unless all the tickets are paid off.
Thomas Hobbes creates a clear idea of the social contract theory in which the social contract is a collective agreement where everyone in the state of nature comes together and sacrifices all their liberty in return to security. “In return, the State promises to exercise its absolute power to maintain a state of peace (by punishing deviants, etc.)” So are the power and the ability of the state making people obey to the laws or is there a wider context to this? I am going to look at the different factors to this argument including a wide range of critiques about Hobbes’ theory to see whether or not his theory is convincing reason for constantly obeying the law.
1: A debate happening between the world-renowned amusement park "Disney Land" and stakeholders who are supporting an engineer's plan to assemble competitive lodging in an area close Disney Land that is saved for tourism-related exercises or for Disney's extension in a region where lodging is extremely costly, an arrange that Disney contradicted. Disney area is dismissing to act in a socially capable manner towards it stakeholders as it is not considering their enthusiasm of having moderate lodging close to the spot in which they work.
When having stop signs and traffic lights, people have a tendency to drive slower and look out for people walking in the middle of streets. To put a traffic light or a stop sign in a community, it takes a lot of work and planning from the community and the city to put one in. It is not cheap to do it either. The community first needs to take a petition around to everyone in the community and have them sign so they can take it to the board when the next city council meeting is. A couple residents will present it to the board, and they will decide weather or not to put it in or not. If not put in a lot of residents might be mad and bad things could happened to that part of the city.