Sentence examples for contemporary contract from inspiring English sources

But at 26 wonky pages — and more to come — the contemporary contract is hardly the succinct, poll-tested, 10-point legislative agenda unveiled 17 years ago.

Grose tinkers with the plot to reconceive Macheath as a contemporary contract killer who blithely dispatches a politician and then shoots his dog, claiming it to be a witness.

Contemporary contract theory is, characteristically, doubly hypothetical.

In contemporary contract theories such as Rawls's, the problem of justification takes center stage.

Rawls's concern with stability and publicity is not, however, idiosyncratic and is shared by all contemporary contract theorists.

For Rawls, as for most contemporary contract theorists, the object of agreement is not, at least directly, the grounds of political obligation, but the principles of justice that regulate the basic institutions of society.

Although contemporary social contract theorists still sometimes employ the language of consent, the core idea of contemporary social contract theory is agreement.

Understanding contemporary social contract theory is best achieved, not through insisting on the distinction between actual and hypothetical contracts, but by grasping the interplay of the hypothetical and the actual.

It is almost a commonplace today that contemporary social contract theory relies on hypothetical, not actual, agreement.

In this way, the contemporary social contract is meant to be a model of the justificatory situation that all individuals face.

So the question for contemporary hypothetical contract theories is whether the hypothetical agreement of your surrogate tracks your reasons to accept social arrangements, a very different issue.