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social contract

Medical practice The implied understanding between physician and Pt that the former provides the best possible care in a truthful and timely fashion, in exchange for the latter's trust. See Doctor-patient relationship.

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Rave, by contrast, argues that politicians are fiduciaries even on the contractarian account.

The false promise of fiduciary government

The contractarian view of the corporation casts corporate law in a

Fact and fiction in corporate law and governance

And that, on contractarian grounds, is to say that they have no case at all.

Liberty, property, and welfare rights: Brettschneider's argument

And contractarians can say that promise-breaking is wrong because it would be rational for us to agree to live by a set of rules that forbids it.

Could morality have a source?

Recalling Sen's critique of the Contractarian school of social ethics, it is noteworthy that this form of universalism cannot be supported by the concept of the social contract because in that line of reasoning, the rights extend only to those who are party to the contract, i.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: Human rights and immigration

Contractarian scholars who are not strict utilitarians have

Taking bubbles seriously in contract law

In this respect he joins a number of recent theorists--Albert Memmi, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Berube, Eva Kittay, and Alasdaire MacIntyre--for whom a consideration of dependency challenges the social contract as it has been conceived from Rousseau and Hume to Rawls and asks whether contractarian ideals can stand the test of differently abled bodies?

"Every man his specialty": Beckett, disability, and dependence

In the first part, while explaining the demands for justice, Sen discusses the prevailing theories of justice including the Contractarian approach, Adam Smith's 'Impartial Spectator'; and John Rawl's 'Justice as fairness'.

Amartya Sen. The Idea of Justice

First, contra Osiel, it is plausible that human rights per se, as opposed to human rights legislation, do not have a contractarian basis, whether Rawlsian or otherwise.

An eye for an eye: Counterterrorism, reciprocity, and human rights

Finally, Murphy has long been drawn to a Kantian approach to moral philosophy in general, a contractarian approach to political philosophy, and a retributive theory of punishment, yet he has concluded that a fairness/reciprocity remake of retributivism along Rawlsian lines will not work.

Coming clean on getting even: Murphy on hatred and criminal justice

The fundamental theory of political legitimacy in the United States is contractarian, which implies originalist interpretation by the judicial branch.

Pragmatism's role in interpretation

Scholars may genuinely wonder whether Bill Clinton was a committed contractarian even if he regularly used contractarian language (e.

Theories about theory: theory-based claims about presidential performance from the case of James Madison