caa a22 4500 46581767X CHVBK 20180323112127.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00382663 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00382663 Donaldson Thomas Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, D.C., USA aut Social contracts and corporations: A reply to Hodapp [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Donaldson] In this reply to Professor Hodapp's criticism of my social contract theory, I focus on the misinterpretations I believe Professor Hodapp makes of the social contract tradition as well as my version of the contract. By misinterpreting the underlying purpose of social contract theory, he neglects the contract's heuristic or "functional” dimension, something that leads him to downplay the importance of the contract as a conceptual catalyst. And by adopting an overly narrow notion of rationality, he imagines circularity where none exists. Later, Professor Hodapp questions the effect of the contract upon individual liberties, and in doing so broaches a critical issue. But I attempt to show that his concerns are eliminated by close attention to the theory itself. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(1990-02-01), 133-137 0167-4544 9:2<133 1990 9 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Donaldson Thomas Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, D.C., USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(1990-02-01), 133-137 0167-4544 9:2<133 1990 9 10551 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer