Sentence examples for contract viewed from inspiring English sources

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

(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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The social contract view and the encapsulated interests view are both instances of what Karen Jones calls "risk-assessment views" of trust or trustworthiness (1999, 68).