ABSTRACT
Thomas Hobbes' formulation suggests that the "common power," the "real unity," that gives the government or a governor the power "to defend them all" is stronger than the power each individual member of society may possess. Paradoxically, it is produced by each one "giving up" his right through the contracting and reduction process in the strength of separate individuals. Hence, a social contract achieved through a society's mutual contraction reduces the possibility of individuals' counteraction. By the "guilt-debt" conception, the author refers to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's use of contractual-guilt. The ethical term "guilt" took its origin from the material concept of "debts", and thus interpersonal guilt, according to Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, is based on the contractual notion that someone "owes" something to another. The ancient sociological exchange system of the nonutilitarian alter-centric salvation pattern, which emanated from the biblical-tribal "Issachar and Zebulun" model, will be used here as a paradigmatic case to explicate and elucidate sociological contraction.
