Cosmic Humanity: Utopia, Realities, Prospects by Sergey Krichevsky

“…There is a process of transformation of the almost fantastic and superglobal utopia of the first in the history of the earthly civilization of the cosmic state of people — the “cosmic international” — into the reality of a fundamentally new social contract. The idea and the project of the space state is exactly what was lacking for the process of space expansion to go seriously: a new geocosmopolitan subject and an actor who is interested in space exploration (including resettlement in it in the long run) as in its main goal and overarching goal, and Focused on this process. …”
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Ten new insights in climate science 2020 – a horizon scan by Erik Pihl, Eva Alfredsson, Magnus Bengtsson, Kathryn J. Bowen, Vanesa Cástan Broto, Kuei Tien Chou, Helen Cleugh, Kristie Ebi, Clea M. Edwards, Eleanor Fisher, Pierre Friedlingstein, Alex Godoy-Faúndez, Mukesh Gupta, Alexandra R. Harrington, Katie Hayes, Bronwyn M. Hayward, Sophie R. Hebden, Thomas Hickmann, Gustaf Hugelius, Tatiana Ilyina, Robert B. Jackson, Trevor F. Keenan, Ria A. Lambino, Sebastian Leuzinger, Mikael Malmaeus, Robert I. McDonald, Celia McMichael, Clark A. Miller, Matteo Muratori, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Harini Nagendra, Cristian Passarello, Josep Penuelas, Julia Pongratz, Johan Rockström, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Joyashree Roy, Adam A. Scaife, Peter Schlosser, Edward Schuur, Michelle Scobie, Steven C. Sherwood, Giles B. Sioen, Jakob Skovgaard, Edgardo A. Sobenes Obregon, Sebastian Sonntag, Joachim H. Spangenberg, Otto Spijkers, Leena Srivastava, Detlef B. Stammer, Pedro H. C. Torres, Merritt R. Turetsky, Anna M. Ukkola, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Christina Voigt, Chadia Wannous, Mark D. Zelinka

“…Options for solutions emerge from rethinking economic models, rights-based litigation, strengthened governance systems and a new social contract. The disruption caused by COVID-19 could be seized as an opportunity for positive change, directing economic stimulus towards sustainable investments. …”
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Reframing philosophical views on freedom, choice, perfectibility and self-realisation in selected contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions by Zahra, Rezaei

“…Yet, more research needs to be conducted on post-apocalyptic texts using the social contract approach through the concepts of self-realisation, freedom and choice because there is a lack of scholarship on how authors portray characters who wish for a just society in order to act freely and make choices for perfectibility which is achievable through social agreement. …”
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El asalto a la confianza básica: desaparición, protesta y re-entierros en Argentina by Antonius C. G. M. Robben, María Soledad Cutuli, Miranda González Martín

“…<br>The Argentine dirty war that raged from 1976 to 1983 was a massive assault on the foundation of the social contract. The violence unleashed penetrated deep into the homes of the Argentine people, and disrupted the relations of protection, safety, trust, and love that dwelled there. …”
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State and Contention Politics in Cotemporary Iran Necessity of Transition to Conciliator State by Abolfazl Delavari

“…Such a state must first of all emerge from within a comprehensive social contract. Then, based on democratic and efficient institutional arrangements and a coherent legal system, the main priority and goal should be to solve the conflicts affecting the country. …”
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Systemic interpretation and the judicial recovery of the possibility for companies in common by Juliana Hinterlang dos Santos Costa, Marlene Kempfer

“…>The first was characterized by having written contract, but this was not brought to registration with the competent body and the second when there was no social contract. </span><span title="Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar a figura da Sociedade em Comum, no atual ordenamento jurídico, a partir da interpretação majoritária que não reconhece o direito à recuperação judicial."…”
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Janus-faced Populism: De-democratization or Democratization of Democracy? by Mohsen Abbaszadeh Marzbali

“…It calls for a new social contract based on a balanced relationship between specialism and democratic responsibility. …”
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Desseriação escolar: alternativa para o sucesso? Políticas alternativas a la organización escolar en grados: ¿un camino para el succeso? Alternative policies to school organization... by Candido Alberto Gomes

“…Results show that different experiences have risks and disadvantages, among them the rupture of the so called social contract for school, partially based on the repetition threat. …”
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MIDDLE CLASS IN UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSITION? by Denys Yakovlev, Liliya Yakovleva, Vitaly Koltsov

“…In modern conditions, it is a class of volunteers, activists and volunteers who are defending Ukraine against a large-scale military invasion. A new social contract, aimed at implementing Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic integration on the basis of democratic values and institutions, is impossible without the active political participation of the middle class. …”
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Ethics, Indigenous Ethics, and the Contemporary Challenge: Attempt at a Report on Ethics for the Filipino Today by Romualdo Abulad

“…. ___________________. Social Contract and Discourses on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality Among Mankind. …”
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Challenges of professional self-regulation in Iranian nursing by Mohammad Ali Yadegary, Ali Aghajanloo, Reza Negarandeh

“…According to the Donabedian Model, a “social contract” exists between the society and the profession and under this contract the society will accept profession’s independence in exchange for their services and will give independence to that profession so that they could manage their own matters. …”
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POR UN SISTEMA DE SALUD QUE GARANTICE LA PROTECCIÓN DEL DERECHO. UN REQUISITO DE JUSTICIA SOCIAL POR UM SISTEMA DE SAÚDE QUE GARANTISSE A PROTEÇÃO DO DIREITO. UM REQUISITO DE JUSTI... by Alba Lucía Vélez Arango

“…Conclusions: a call for a new social contract in which the nonnegotiable right to the protection of health is advocated, as part of an exercise of citizenship must be proposed. …”
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Qutb and Aquinas on Divine Law and the Limits of the State by Lucas Thorpe

“…Secondly, although Qutb is opposed to the idea of popular sovereignty, he himself seems to offer an analogue of the social contract, for he believes that although all law ultimately comes from God, Islamic law cannot be imposed by force and so that before one can have a society governed by divine law there needs to be an Islamic community, and which can only come into existence through the free submission of its members to the law. …”
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Leveraging Law as the Principal Instrument of Public Health Policy by Donna Hanrahan

“…Regardless of these ethical concerns, public health laws are still created and generally accepted with the understanding that people enter into a social contract and willingly forgo some self-interest in exchange for protection, or otherwise face a tragedy of the commons.[7] The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma that arises when multiple individuals, each acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest, ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen.[8]  One case that illustrates public health efforts to avoid the “tragedy of the commons” is the case of mandatory vaccination laws and herd immunity. …”
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Climate forcing growth rates: doubling down on our Faustian bargain by James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato

“…AMBIO 31 60–3 German Advisory Council on Global Change (GAC) 2011 World in Transition—A Social Contract for Sustainability ( http://www.wbgu.de/en/flagship-reports/fr-2011-a-social-contract/ , accessed Oct. 2011) Global Energy Assessment (GEA) 2012 Toward a Sustainable Future ed T B Johanson et al (Luxemburg: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) p 118 Gloor M, Sarmiento J L and Gruber N 2010 What can be learned about carbon cycle climate feedbacks from the CO2 airborne fraction? …”
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SASOP Biological Psychiatry Congress 2013 Abstracts by E Allers, E Allers, O A Betancourt, J Benson-Martin, P Buckley, P Buckley, I Chetty, B Chiliza, P Cilliers, H Clark, P Cowen, L Dannatt, A K Domingo, K Domschke, S du Plessis, P Haddad, S Hemmings, D C Henderson, V Hitzeroth, B Janse van Rensburg, S Janse van Rensburg, G Jordaan, L Kramer, A Lachman, B Latecki, P Macqueen, N McGregor, A Moodley, Z M Moosa, L Mubaiwa, M Nagdee, C Nemeroff, G Nortje, A Ojagbemi, E Peter, L Phahladira, W Pienaar, S Ramlall, S Rataemane, A Roos, D Rosenstein, J Roux, C Schumann, M Solms, G Spies, U Subramaney, S Suliman, S Suomi, C Szabo, H Uys, J van Tonder, J Zohar, S Bakelaar, E Breet, A Bronkhorst, W Davis, D de Klerk, D Delport, B Drögemöller, E du Toit, J P Fouche

“…Bioethics by case discussion W Pienaar 43. Reviewing our social contract pertaining to psychiatric research in children, research in developing countries and distributive justice in pharmacy W Pienaar 44. …”
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Expanding Conflicts of Interest in Public Health Research by Vishnu Subrahmanyam

“…Corporations engage in responsible actions to improve transparency and be more accountable for their actions.[4] Some corporations are motivated to be good corporate citizens through ethically profitable practices; they recognize a self-imposed obligation to use their resources to protect, and benefit society and they adhere to a social contract.[5] Corporate social responsibility has strong parallels with entrepreneurial philanthropy. …”
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Doctors Strike During COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia by Jazlan Jamaluddin, Nurul Nadia Baharum, Siti Nuradliah Jamil, Mohd Azzahi Mohamed Kamel

“…Therefore, it has been suggested that doctors and medical organizations should develop a new consensus on issues pertaining to medical professional’s social contract with society while considering the need to uphold the integrity of the profession. …”
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Améry, Arendt, and the Future of the World by Anne O'Byrne

“…In a vault inside the fortress, beyond the reach of anyone who might help—a wife, a mother, a brother, a friend—it turned out that all social contracts had been broken and torture was possible. …”
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CLIMATE CHANGE: DISASTER RISK AND BUILDING RESILIENCE by Jerremy Cripps

“…Social contracts share reciprocal rights, obligations and responsibilities regarding our environment and our responses to climate change. …”
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