Contract Theory in Historical Context: Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke by Deborah Baumgold

Contract Theory in Historical Context: Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #187

Deborah Baumgold

190 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

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These essays contest the truism that the social contract is a modern political idea. Just as Rawls came to acknowledge that his political theory built in the parochial horizon of his time, Hobbes's, Grotius's, and Locke's theories presuppose their...

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