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''The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder'' is a 1970 Paleoanthropology book by Robert Ardrey. It is the third in his four-book Nature of Man Series. The book extended Ardrey's refutation of the prevailing conviction within social sciences that all social behavior is purely learned and not governed by innate patterns. Through interwoven analyses of animals and human social structures Ardrey argued that inherited evolutionary traits are an important determining factor in social behavior. Ardrey dedicated ''The Social Contract'' to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, after whose 1762 work the book was titled.〔Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times: Lore and Order." ''The New York Times,'' 5 October, 1970〕 ==Overview== ''The Social Contract'' was published in 1970. It was the third book in Ardrey's ''Nature of Man'' series, following ''African Genesis'' and ''The Territorial Imperative'' and preceding ''The Hunting Hypothesis''. ''The Social Contract'' continues Ardrey's work on understanding how evolutionarily inherited traits are manifest by contemporary man. In particular ''The Social Contract'' examines society and hierarchy in terms of genetic diversity. The edition cites many of the scientists who were important influences on Ardrey, including Raymond Dart and Konrad Lorenz.〔 It was illustrated, like the first two books, by Ardrey's wife, the South African actress and illustrator Berdine Ardrey (neé Grunewald). ''The Social Contract'' is a more ideologically motivated book than the other works in his ''Nature of Man'' series. It made assertions about how the social contract ''should'' be organized based on the evolutionary nature of man. In his last chapter, Ardrey writes: The evolutionary nature of man represents, as I see it, a subject for the new philosophy, the new theologian. A set of common assumptions, common dedications, common assurances, of rules and regulations, even considering the limitations of homo sapiens, remains someday possible. As all of our parochial dedications have been eroded by the wash of the science, still a religion unassailable by the sciences exists as a goal worthy of contemporary ambition.〔Ardrey, Robert. ''The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder.'' New York: Atheneum. 1970. 405 pp. Print〕 ''The Social Contract'' also called for a reasoned respect of nature (in his next book, ''The Hunting Hypothesis'', Ardrey would be one of the first to warn of climate change as an existential threat to humanity〔Ardrey, Robert. "The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man." 1976. New York: Atheneum. 231 pp. Print.〕〔Turnbull, Colin M. "Just out of the Jungle: Hunting Hypothesis." ''The New York Times,'' 23 May, 1976. Print.〕). In ''The Social Contract'' he writes: The philosophy of the impossible has been the dominant motive in human affairs for the past two centuries. We have pursued the mastery of nature as if we ourselves were not a portion of that nature. We have boasted of our command over our physical environment while we ourselves have done our urgent best to destroy it.〔Ardrey, Robert (2014-05-15). The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder (Robert Ardrey's Nature of Man series) (Kindle Locations 47-49). StoryDesign LTD.. Kindle Edition. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Social Contract (1970 book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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