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    It is not the case that Social contract theories presuppose a source of moral norms prior to the contract itself

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    • 1.Contractarian procedure can itself constitute moral norms rather than presuppose them, as Scanlon's contractualism demonstrates.
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    • 2.The agreement-process generates its own validity conditions through reflective equilibrium, not prior moral facts.
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    • 3.Gauthier's 'morals by agreement' shows rational bargaining can be self-grounding without importing pre-contractual moral premises.
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    • 1.Hobbes's sovereign-creation model treats the pre-contractual state as morally empty, making norms artifacts of convention alone.
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    • 2.The logical priority of procedural rules over substantive norms does not entail a moral source, only a formal constraint on rational coordination.
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    • 1.Social contract theories require rules to guide the formation of agreement
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    • 2.Such rules must be prior to the contract in order to govern its formation
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    • 3.Norms that are prior to the contract must originate from some pre-contractual source, whether natural, rational, or conventional
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