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- noun politics A political theory based on the idea of a
social contract between aruler and their subjects.
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It may be argued that even if this stringent principle follows from Scanlon's contractualism, that is not a problem for the theory.
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Two additional ideas are "contractarianism" and "contractualism" -- distinctive positions in moral philosophy that are respectively associated with David Gauthier and Thomas ( "Tim")
Legal Theory Blog 2009
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Contractualism -- The term "contractualism" applies to theories that focuses on reasonableness or justifiability to others.
Legal Theory Blog 2009
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Another difference is that Scanlon's contractualism seeks principles that no one can reasonably reject, rather than principles all would agree to.
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There is already a huge literature surrounding Scanlon's contractualism.
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This dispute is one more sign of the resurgence of contractualism and the resumption of real progress.
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The more important point, I think, is that the debate is conducted about contractualism.
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Unlike utilitarianism, therefore, contractualism rejects the interpersonal aggregation of burdens.
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Instead of a decisive intuition that counts against contractualism, we have a case of distinct intuitions, where different theorists, beginning from different intuitive starting points, end up with different theoretical priorities.
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But is contractualism less demanding than utilitarianism?
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