Sentence examples for contract view from inspiring English sources

(David Hume dismissed the social contract view as akin to saying that if I was drugged and smuggled about a ship, I still "implicitly consent" to being under the authority of the captain — something Hume found ridiculous).

Call this view of trustworthiness "the social contract view".

One worry about the social contract view is that it licenses vigilante punishment.

Many philosophers would agree that the social contract view is only a partial account of what could motivate trustworthiness.

In the end, like the social contract view, the encapsulated interests view might describe only reliability, not trustworthiness.

On the contract view, the traditionalist's sense that there is a "crisis" surrounding the family is unwarranted.

Cashman, who could be blamed for the costly contract, viewed the matter philosophically.

Irrespective of being a Noble laureate, Paul Krugman ("America's social contract," Views, Sept. 24) does not appreciate that America will not be short of capacity when the orders start coming in.

"Social contract views work from the intuitive idea of agreement" (Freeman 2007a, 17).

The traditional social contract views of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau crucially relied on the idea of consent.

Interpreting our findings as evidence for the nexus-of-contracts view of the firm, we discuss some implications for financial design and valuation.