Translation and Criticism of the Article "Contractarianism" in the Encyclopedia of Stanford

One of the important and moral schools which has a lot of followers is contractarianism. Generally، there two expositions of contractarianism: Hobbesian and Kantian. There is an article entitled «contractarianism» in the Encyclopedia of Stanford، which introduces a brief account of contractarianism and refers its kinds. The advantage which this article has over other articles in this issue is that its author deals with contractarianism critically and avoids one-sided judgment. Using an analytical-critical approach، the author of this paper has translated and refers to a number of points for clarifying the criticism of aforementioned article.