Hobbes and the social contract tradition / Jean Hampton
- Bib ID:
- 1860817
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- Author:
- Hampton, Jean
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986
- xii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521261848
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
- A note on texts and references
- Introduction
- 1. 'Of Man': the foundation of Hobbe's political argument
- 2. What is the cause of conflict in the state of nature?
- 3. The shortsightedness account of conflict and the laws of nature
- 4. The argument of absolute sovereignty
- 5. Authorizing the sovereign
- 6. Hobbe's social contract
- 7. The failure of Hobbe's social contract argument
- 8. Can Hobbe's argument be salvaged?
- 9. How the traditional social contract argument works
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 285-291.
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- Hobbes & the social contract tradition
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