Basal Ingredients Of Society (BIOS)

[Jon Awbrey]

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
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I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of
life in society, a life in association with others, and not just
any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for
more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that
life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form
of social compact.

Regards,

Jon

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[Jon Awbrey]

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
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❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence,
we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme
direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive
each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.),
Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.