Pateman shows agreement between unequal parties is inherently suspect
Evidence
Her most important criticism of the idea is the conspicuous lack of participation by women in the social contract of any past time and, arguably, even of today, but her criticisms are more general than this in that, with Baier, she thinks much of moral life is grounded in the assumption of agreement. Agreement between those of unequal power is inherently suspect. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 486
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The doctor’s wife is the one sighted party in Blindness — her unequal power renders the ‘agreement’ she might extract from the blind morally suspect, sharpening the reader’s analysis.
Related
- Great power inequalities undercut the possibility of voluntary uncoerced agreement. (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Voluntary agreement is impossible between parties of unequal power
#corroborates(0.95) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 485 - Cooperation fails if no one can knowingly occupy a dependent party
#qualifies(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 169