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Will and Political Legitimacy : A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel / Patrick Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social contract--History.
- Social contract.
- PHILOSOPHY / General.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
- Local Subjects:
- PHILOSOPHY / General.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
- Social contract--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the heart of representative government is the question: "What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?" The notion of consent to a social contract between the citizen and his government is central to this problem. What are the functions of public authority? What are the people's rights in a self-governing and representative state? Patrick Riley presents a comprehensive historical analysis of the meaning of contract theory and a testing of the inherent validity of the ideas of consent and obligation. He uncovers the critical relationship between the act of willing and that of consenting in self-government and shows how "will" relates to political legitimacy. His is the first large-scale study of social contract theory from Hobbes to Rawls that gives "will" the central place it occupies in contractarian thinking.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 How Coherent Is the Social Contract Tradition?
- 2 Will and Legitimacy in the Philosophy of Hobbes
- 3 Finding an Equilibrium between Consent and Natural Law in Locke's Political Philosophy
- 4 A Possible Explanation of Rousseau's General Will
- 5 Kant as the Most Adequate of the Social Contract Theorists
- 6 Hegel on Consent and Social Contract Does He "Cancel and Preserve" the Theory: Will?
- 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-43550-8
- OCLC:
- 1013956296
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