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Beck-style risk society (1986) • Risk has to do with potential damage – it is therefore ”invisible” • Risk an ”invisible” product of the technological and socio-economic system itself (systemic risk) • Risk hard to assess because of complexity • Potential damage may be catastrophic • Potential damage may be irreversible • Hard to separate risk from progress – boomerang effect! My Question: How to deal with systemic risk in a social contract – involving CSR? The Social Contract tradition Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) The father of modern Social Contract theory Hobbesian Social Contract (I) State of nature: • No government, no laws, thus no private property • Life is a war of every man against every other man; “nasty, brutish and short” • Essentially the law of the jungle Hobbesian Social Contract (II) The Social Contract: • Every individual surrenders its “natural liberty” to a common centralized power, a Sovereign embodying the State • The Sovereign has a monopoly on the use of force, and more generally, on political power • The Sovereign defines and enforces what is legal and illegal. Private property is thus constituted, but subject to limitations imposed by the sovereign, including confiscation
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