David Gauthier

(1932)

1. Canadian-American Political Thinker
2. Pioneer in moral theory and revisiting social contract theories
3. ‘Morals by Agreement’ -neo-Hobbesian social contract theory of morality
4. Gave ‘contractarian ethics’
5. ‘Justice as Mutual Advantage’-moral norms are those that rational, self‐interested persons would accept in regulating the pursuit of their self‐interest
6. Wrote history of political philosophy, especially of Hobbes and Rousseau