 It should be noted that, although Foot obviously made significant contributions to the development of neo-Aristotelian virtue theory, she explicitly disavowed allegiance to virtue ethics (RG 2). Her reasons for distancing herself from virtue ethics are somewhat obscure, and possibly misconstrue philosophers who advocate views under that heading, but it seems from her writings on the nature of morality that she considers morality something apart from virtue, something that is determined by an idealized, contractual moral code. Hence, she endorses the attempts of John Rawls and T.M. Scanlon to develop social contract approaches to morality (1985 [MD 103]).