Usually means: Ethical theory based on agreements.
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  1. contractualism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. Contractualism, contractualism: Wordnik
  3. contractualism: Wiktionary
  4. contractualism: Dictionary.com
  5. Contractualism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. contractualism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. contractualism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contractualism)

▸ noun:  (politics) A political theory based on the idea of a social contract between a ruler and their subjects.

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contractarianism, contractualist, propertarianism, contractarian, consent of the governed, social compact, voluntarism, naturalism, contractocracy, transactionalist, more...

Opposite:
non-contractualism, non-agreement, non-binding, informal

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Similar:
contractarianism, contractualist, propertarianism, contractarian, consent of the governed, social compact, voluntarism, naturalism, contractocracy, transactionalist, more...

Opposite:
non-contractualism, non-agreement, non-binding, informal



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