The original political contract has so far been defined only in procedural terms as a transcendental exchange; we must now explicate its content. To begin, one of the advantages of the original legal contract must be asserted: it is that from which people as such benefit and which only occurs reciprocally. If thereby the hypothesis of a normative modernisation is indeed confirmed, a two-stage response must then be examined: this basic benefit of the law is followed by the full development of a ‘modern’ form of the law in the normative sense.
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(2007). Principles of justice. In: HÖffe, O., Moellendorf, D., Pogge, T. (eds) Democracy in an Age of Globalisation. Studies In Global Justice, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5662-8_3
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