- John
Rawls (1921–2002), in A
Theory of
Justice (1971),
proposed a
contractarian approach whereby rational people in a
hypothetical "original position"...
- 2023) was a
Canadian philosopher best
known for his neo-Hobbesian or
contractarian theory of morality, as
developed in his 1986 book
Morals by Agreement...
- is an
umbrella term for all
social contract theories that
include contractarianism), or to the
ethical theory developed in
recent years by T. M. Scanlon...
- of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. An anarcho-capitalist and
contractarian, Narveson's
ideology is
deeply influenced by the
thought of
Robert Nozick...
- domination.
According to
Jamelle Bouie, the work
argues that "classic
contractarian theories", such as
those proposed by "Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques...
-
derive the two
principles that
Rawls desired to advance, and/or, as the "
contractarian critique" holds, that the
persons in the
original position articulated...
-
animal rights based on
virtue ethics. Mark
Rowlands has
proposed a
contractarian approach.
Nussbaum (2004)
writes that utilitarianism,
starting with...
-
intense criticism from some quarters.
Thomas Hobbes instead founded a
contractarian theory of
legal positivism on what all men
could agree upon: what they...
-
definition of a
state is also
dependent on how and why they form. The
contractarian view of the
state suggests that
states form
because people can all benefit...
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including Thomas Hobbes, John
Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Each
social contractarian constructs their initial situation somewhat differently,
having in mind...
