The Moral Foundations of the Social Contract in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thesis advisor: Christopher J. Kelly === This dissertation is an attempt to elucidate Jean-Jacques Rousseau's answer to the question "why keep a promise?" with the aim of answering the more particular political question of why one should keep the social contract. I begin by explicatin...

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Main Author: Burns, Kimberley Joy
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104163