Contractualism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Contractualism is a term in philosophy that refers either to a family of political theories in the social contract tradition (when used in this sense, the term is synonymous with contractarianism),[1] or to the ethical theory developed in recent years by T. M. Scanlon, especially in his book What We Owe to Each Other.[2]

Social contract theorists from the history of political thought include Hugo Grotius (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), and Immanuel Kant (1797); more recently, John Rawls (1971), David Gauthier (1986) and Philip Pettit (1997).

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/
  2. ^ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractualism/

Further reading[edit]

  • Ashford, Elizabeth and Mulgan, Tim. 2007. 'Contractualism'. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (accessed October 2007).
  • Cudd, Ann. 2007. 'Contractarianism'. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Summer 2007 Edition).
  • Scanlon, T. M. 1998. What We Owe to Each Other. Cambridge, Mass.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contractualism&oldid=753778041"