Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract

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"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."

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

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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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