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Contract Theory in Historical Context
Deborah Baumgold
其他書名
Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke
出版BRILL, 2010
主題Literary Collections / EssaysHistory / Europe / General
ISBN97890041842519004184252
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ulxxVUH9EE4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋These essays contest the truism that the social contract is a modern political idea. Just as Rawls came to acknowledge that his political theory built in the parochial horizon of his time, Hobbes's Grotius's, and Locke's theories presuppose their ancien regime world. Despite their universalizing language. Hobbes's and Locke's theories addressed the age-old issue of resistance to tyrants and assumed the framework of hereditary monarchy. Essays in the volume also relate the logic of their contract claims back to Bodin's and Grotius's defenses of absolute sovereignty and direct attention to the affinity between an `absolutism of fear' and Hume's sensibility. For politically-inclined readers, these theories come to life by being read as treatises on politics in the early-modern state.