Social Contract and Political Obligation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Contract and Political Obligation write by Peter J. McCormick. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Social Contract and Political Obligation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1987. This study is concerned with the problem of political obligation, the normative question of why one should obey the law, and with social contract thought as an answer to this question. It is entitled a critique, but the critique is not of social contract theory as such, but rather of the "orthodox" treatment of contract that yields so readily to the rough handling and easy rejection that is the normal lot of contractarianism in contemporary treatments. In its place will be suggested a reinterpretation of contract that sees it as making different assumptions and requiring different premises, and that is proof against many of the orthodox refutations of social contract theory; the reinterpretation is thus in the nature of a vindication. First, from an examination of the most commonly cited champions of contractarianism (namely Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau) will be derive a reinterpretation of contract in the form of a new model or syllogism, the features of which will be brought out by contrasting it first with the contemporary ideas of John Rawls and then with the orthodox model itself. Democratic consent theory, as the heir to the remnants of the orthodox model, will be examined, and the ideas of T. H. Green will be considered as embodying an important feature of contractarianism omitted or ignored by the orthodox model (and hence by democratic theory.) Finally, the new model of contract will be suggested as a potentially useful approach to the problem of political obligation in the modern context. This title will be of interest to student of politics and philosophy.
Social Contract Theories
Social Contract Theories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Contract Theories write by Vicente Medina. This book was released on 1990. Social Contract Theories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '. . . this book will be valuable to upper-division and graduate students interested in the validity of SC theories.'-PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Obligation
Political Obligation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Obligation write by Dudley Knowles. This book was released on 2009-09-10. Political Obligation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual’s claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim obedience. It is a central and ancient problem in political philosophy. In this authoritative introduction, Dudley Knowles frames the problem of obligation in terms of the duties citizens have to the state and each other. Drawing on a wide range of key works in political philosophy, from Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and G. W. F. Hegel to John Rawls, A. John Simmons, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin, Political Obligation: A Critical Introduction is an ideal starting point for those coming to the topic for the first time, as well as being an original and distinctive contribution to the literature. Knowles distinguishes the philosophical problem of obligation - which types of argument may successfully ground the legitimacy of the state and the duties of citizens - from the political problem of obligation - whether successful arguments apply to the actual citizens of particular states. Against the anarchist and modern skeptics, Knowles claims that a plurality of arguments promise success when carefully formulated and defended, and discusses in turn ancient and modern theories of social contract and consent, fairness and gratitude, utilitarianism, justice and a Samaritan duty of care for others. Against modern communitarians, he defends a distinctive liberalism: ‘the state proposes, the citizen disposes’.
Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation
Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation write by Michael Davis. This book was released on 2002. Actual Social Contract and Political Obligation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Social Contract, and Discourses
The Social Contract, and Discourses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Contract, and Discourses write by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This book was released on 1950. The Social Contract, and Discourses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
