Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract

Authors

Fred D'Agostino, University of Queensland
John Thrasher, Chapman UniversityFollow
Gerald Gaus, University of Arizona

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Description

"To explicate the idea of the social contract we analyze contractual approaches into five elements: (1) the role of the social contract (2) the parties (3) agreement (4) the object of agreement (5) what the agreement is supposed to show."

Publication Date

5-31-2017

Publisher

The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University

Comments

In Edward N. Zalta (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Recommended Citation

D'Agostino, Fred, John Thrasher, and Gerald Gaus. “Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, 2017. plato.stanford.edu/index.html

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The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University