Social Contract Theory

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. Contractarianism originated as a __________ theory.

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. Contractarianism states that actions are morally right if and only if

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. According to contractarianism, we are best off when we agree to

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. A prisoner’s dilemma is a situation in which

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. The purpose of Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” is to

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. What did Hobbes think is the only way to escape from the state of nature?

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. Contractarians seek to justify basic moral rules by showing that

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. According to contractarianism, what motivates the contractors to select the rules they do?

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. The social contract that fixes our basic moral duties is

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. Which of the following is a problem for contractarianism discussed in the text?

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