contractarian
Speech parts
1. contractarian - Noun
2. contractarian - Adjective
Meaning
contractarian (not comparable)
Relating to contractarianism
contractarian (plural contractarians)
An advocate of contractarianism
Examples
As Pateman argues: The contractarian argument is unassailable all the time it is accepted that abilities can 'acquire' an external relation to an individual, and can be treated as if they were property.
Nevertheless, many (though not all) elements of Hobbes's political thought were unchanged between The Elements of Law and Leviathan, which demonstrates that the events of the English Civil War had little effect on his contractarian methodology.
Hobbes was a social contractarian Basically meaning: the people of a society are prepared give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.