Reasonableness and Responsibility: Rawls, Kant and the Theory of Contract Law

Abstract

In this paper I focus on some ideas exposed in Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law, where I present a theory of contractual law that pretends to complete Rawls’ theory by understanding contractual interactions as reasonable interactions, that is, interactions based on public and interpersonal terms of interaction. On the other hand, to complete Rawls’ work, I use the contractual theory of law that Kant developed in The Metaphysics of Morals, thathas been recently studied by many law philosophers in order to explain the main doctrines of contractual law.