This article deals with Peter Benson’s claim that, unlike rival approaches such as promissory morality and the economic analysis of law, the theory of contract as transfer of ownership offers a public basis of justification for the coercive practice of contracts. The article points out that this claim can be understood in two ways, each corresponding to a model of public justification, namely, the avoidance model and the hermeneutic model. My ambition is to show that the avoidance model is beset by certain difficulties not encountered by the hermeneutic model, suggesting that the hermeneutic model is a more promising interpretation of the idea of public justification as applied to contracts.

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合同作为所有权转让和公共正当性：两种模式

本文论述了彼得·本森的主张，即与承诺道德和法律经济分析等竞争方法不同，作为所有权转让的合同理论为强制合同实践提供了正当性的公共基础。文章指出，这种主张可以从两个方面来理解，每一个都对应一种公共辩护模式，即回避模式和解释模式。我的目标是表明回避模型受到解释学模型没有遇到的某些困难的困扰，这表明解释学模型是对应用于合同的公共正当性概念的更有希望的解释。