Hayek adopts a variant of Kantian
contractarianism in The Mirage of Social Justice (1978), despite the fact that in The Constitution of Liberty ([1960] 2011) he criticizes the social contract tradition as rationalistic, claiming that civil society was not "formed by some wise original legislator or an original 'social contract'" (112).
James Buchanan's
contractarianism may illuminate the problem under investigation.
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Contractarianism is a highly figurative metaphor.
In the large majority of the book, Murray applies his
contractarianism, taking distinctive positions on a wide range of issues in applied ethics.
Whereas
contractarianism is so far intra-state (the UN having sadly being reduced to insignificance), terrorism also concerns inter-state or inter-communal entanglements of international right relevance.
Klarman does not address the possible roles of different theories such as liberalism, republicanism, or
contractarianism, or different understandings of federalism.
Along the way, McCloskey takes aim at ethical systems, specifically Kantianism, utilitarianism, and
contractarianism, which reduce morality to one simple rule.
Hegel launches over a century of theorists rejecting
contractarianism, from Marx to Heidegger, and others of all and sundry outlooks, all stridently rejecting the contractualist assumption of divorcing legal legitimacy from substantive justice--thereby, in an important sense, returning to the postures of Plato and Aristotle.
My argument is threefold: (i) Narveson's version of
contractarianism can be interpreted in a way consistent with the pro-life perspective; (ii) Narveson's own understanding of his social contract produces a result that is implausible and even repellent; and (iii) even if his
contractarianism did imply a unique, aggressively pro-choice stance on abortion, there are competing libertarian theories that are receptive to pro-life views.
at 23 (citing Jean Braucher, Contract Versus
Contractarianism: The Regulatory Role of Contract Law, 47 Wash.
Part I explains the transition from Berle and Means's trust paradigm, to the rise of
contractarianism, to the eventual counterreaction against
contractarianism.