Edmundson William A.: The Social Contract

Political Equality from Putney to Rawls
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"We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. But how is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? This book explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in Rawls"--

ISBN: 978-1-009-39526-7
GTIN: 9781009395267

Über den Autor Edmundson William A.

William A. Edmundson is Regents' Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Georgia State University. He is the author of Three Anarchical Fallacies (Cambridge 1998); An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge 2nd ed. 2012); John Rawls: Reticent Socialist (Cambridge 2017); and Socialism for Soloists (Polity 2021). He has written on democracy, animal rights, distributive justice, moral responsibility, coercion, political obligation, moral relativism, capital punishment, privacy, civility, and other topics.

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