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SOCIAL CONTRACT / SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Togo - Opinions
My latest article was intended to outline the importance of “Social Contract and Social Responsibility” in a society. I believe my message did not go through well with readers. So here I am to clarify my motive and intent of the article.

Democracy functions has two legitimate extremities. Remarkable, people tend to accept and to subscribe to these two political prescriptions. The third world lacks a clean, stable and sustain political system. These political systems somehow put order in the state whereas sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. It is a moral and a political philosophy.
Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of citizens. Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. It is an agreement between the ruled and the rulers defining the rights and duties of individual through constitutional laws that govern the state.
As always in any political system, there are critics of social contract theory. But in most of the Western world of Democracies that the rest of the world tend to envy, the root of their social and economic development bear the signature of social contract. It is the underlining mechanism of their powerhouse.
Another epicenter of their social empowerment is the “Social Responsibility”.
Social responsibility is an ethical framework and suggests that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large. Social responsibility is a duty every individual has to perform so as to maintain a balance between the economy and the ecosystems, hence lending hands to the well-being of the society at will without government interference or coercion, but rather a strong acknowledgement and support of the government.
The intent of my latest article was to share these two philosophies that are sometimes controversial, and an ethical approach. Social responsibility is the idea that businesses should balance profit-making activities with activities that benefit society; it involves developing businesses with a positive relationship to the society in which they operate. Although there are PROS and CONS; these two theories have worked perfectly fine in many western countries that supposedly todays support our political and economic independence. We ought to change our attitude for transformational change in our society. Our altitude is define by our attitude.
The question every citizen and business entities should ask himself or themselves should be:
1) What is the role and duty of a citizen?
2) What is the corporate social responsibility?
3) What is the meaning of social responsiveness?
4) What the definition of corporate sustainability, and finally
5) What is the meaning of corporate citizenship?
The same questions apply equally to expatriates that benefit from the state by doing and conducting businesses and private affair. The well-being of society does not always fall on the shoulders of the state. Social responsibility and social contract should therefore be the backbone and the mechanism o society empowerment for a socio-political and geo-political change in that society.
These are the main points of my latest article: The opinion.

Kokou Hermann Attiogbe