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ACTUAL SOCIAL CONTRACT AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION
A PHILOSOPHER'S HISTORY THROUGH LOCKE |
| By: |
Michael Davis |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0773469834 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780773469839 |
| Publisher: |
THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LTD |
| Series: |
Studies in the History of Philosophy S. v. 69 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
This text is about a practice of contracting certain moral obligations (where "contract" is used as it is in law today). It argues that Hobbes, Locke and many of their predecessors were more serious about the contract part of social contract than today's hypothetical contract theorists suppose. |
| Synopsis: |
Dr. Davis is one of the generation of philosophers that came of age during the decade that spanned the interval between the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 and the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. Between its dramatic endpoints, this period included the achievements of the civil rights movement and the travails of the Vietnam War. It was a time when questions of legal and political obligation possessed an intense practical urgency. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |