This paper explores the promise of pluralism in the realm of contract law. I begin by identifying and rejecting conceptual strategies adopted by monistic and dualistic approaches. Turning towards pluralism, I evaluate three versions in contemporary literature: pluralism across contracting spheres and types, pluralism through consensus and convergence, and pluralism through localised values-balancing and practical reasoning. I suggest embracing some pluralism about contract pluralism, by using these models to construct a framework of ‘meta-pluralism’, where at the macro-level, we are concerned with plural spheres of contracting activity; at the meso-level, a variety of trans-substantive interpretive concepts that receive some measure of juristic consensus; and at the micro-level, practical reasoning through particularistic analysis of case-specific considerations. I illustrate the meta-pluralistic framework through a case study on the varieties of specific performance, and explain how the proposed pluralistic framework enriches our understanding of the nature of contract.

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契约论多元化的前景

本文探讨了合同法领域中多元化的承诺。我首先识别和拒绝一元论和二元论方法采用的概念策略。转向多元化，我评估了当代文学中的三个版本：跨领域和类型的多元化，通过共识和融合的多元化，以及通过本地化价值平衡和实践推理的多元化。我建议接受一些关于契约多元主义的多元主义，通过使用这些模型来构建一个“元多元主义”的框架，在宏观层面上，我们关注的是契约活动的多元领域；在中观层面，各种跨实体的解释性概念获得了一定程度的法律共识；而在微观层面，通过对具体案例考虑的特殊分析进行实践推理。我通过对具体表现品种的案例研究来说明元多元框架，并解释所提出的多元框架如何丰富我们对合同性质的理解。