附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social contract and its critics: an overview / David Boucher and Paul Kelly -- Hobbes's contractarianism: a comparative analysis / Murray Forsyth -- John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology / Jeremy Waldron -- Locke's contract in context / Martyn P. Thompson -- History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories / Dario Castiglione -- Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan / Jeremy Jennings -- Kant on the social contract / Howard Williams -- Hegel's critique of the theory of social contract / Bruce Haddock -- Marx against the social contract / Lawrence Wilde -- Contractarianism and international political theory / John Charvet -- Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations / Diana Coole -- Gauthier's contractarian morality / Margaret Moore -- Justifying 'justice': contractarianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism / Paul Kelly -- Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls's difference principle / Rex Martin.
摘要:The concept of a social contract has been central to political thought since the seventeenth century. Contract theory has been used to justify political authority, to account for the origins of the state, and to provide foundations for moral values and the creation of a just society.In The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls, leading scholars from Britain and America survey the history of contractarian thought and the major debates in political theory which surround the notion of social contract.The book examines the critical reception to the ideas of thinkers including Hobbes,
