Renegotiating the social contract: Hobbes to Rawls

Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls set out different versions of the social contract theory. In this dissertation, these different versions are treated as iterative accounts within an on-going meta-conversation. To facilitate this conversation, a generic social contract is developed that sets...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kissinger, Deborah A
Other Authors: Kinpis, Kenneth
Published: University of Hawaii at Manoa 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/6897