Social contract Summary

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Encyclopedia Articles (5)

1,041 words, approx. 4 pages
Social Contract for Science The social contract for science is an evocative ideological construct used to describe the relationship between the political and scientific communities. Participants in sc... Read more
3,098 words, approx. 11 pages
Social Contract Theory The idea of a social contract can have broad and narrow meanings. In the broad sense a social contract can simply be short hand for expectations in relations between individuals... Read more
947 words, approx. 4 pages
Social Contract [addendum] Contemporary social contract theory is practically identified with the work of John Rawls (1921–2002). In his best known book, A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to ... Read more
2,455 words, approx. 9 pages
Social Contract "Social contract" is the name given to a group of related and overlapping concepts and traditions in political theory. Like other such aggregations in philosophy and inte... Read more
2,235 words, approx. 8 pages
Contractualism Contractualism, as a distinctive account of moral reasoning, was originally advanced by T. M. Scanlon in his widely admired paper "Contractualism and Utilitarianism" (1982... Read more