In this seminar Dr. Timothy Jackson explores key questions about the social contract and the common good: who or what pre-exists “a social contract” and is capable of entering into it? To what extent is a stable notion of the “common good” achievable amongst subjects who are always at odds with themselves? The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0D2vcUhjmoThe seminar took place over Zoom on 16 September 2025, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To be notified when future seminars, conversations and interviews are uploaded, you can subscribe to the SCRN YouTube channel by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw?sub_confirmation=1

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