In this seminar Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld shows how the question of coice is central to concerns of the common good and the social contract, drawing particular attention to a significant and underappreciated shift in how the common good is framed in modern democracies. 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=vd15MIGFpCAThe seminar took place over Zoom on 30 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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