id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1057 Contractualism - Wikipedia .html text/html 1033 326 48 This article about ethics is a stub. Contractualism is a term in philosophy which refers either to a family of political theories in the social contract tradition (when used in this sense, the term is an umbrella term for all social contract theories that include contractarianism),[1] or to the ethical theory developed in recent years by T. Social contract theorists from the history of political thought include Hugo Grotius (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), and Immanuel Kant (1797); more recently, John Rawls (1971), David Gauthier (1986) and Philip Pettit (1997). ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Contractarianism ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Contractualism Ethical non-naturalism Moral universalism Good and evil History of ethics Islamic ethics Social philosophy Social and political philosophy Philosophy of social science Political ethics This philosophy-related article is a stub. Categories: Ethics stubs Social theories Social theories Ethical theories Edit links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1057.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1057.txt