Contractualism

Contractualism can refer to two different positions. First, it can to refer to moral theories based on social contract theory, also known as contractarianism, which argue that what people ought to do is determined by contracts or agreements reached between those people.^{[citation needed]} Second, the term was used by T. M. Scanlon to refer to a theory initially developed in his book What We Owe to Each Other.^{[citation needed]}