Modern social contract theory / Albert Weale.
By: Weale, Albert [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191887963Subject(s): Social contract | Social contract -- History | Politics and Government | Politics & governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198853541DDC classification: 320.11 LOC classification: JC336Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: An exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present. It locates the central themes of that theory in the intellectual legacy of utilitarianism, particularly the problems of defining principles of justice and of showing the grounds of moral obligation. It demonstrates how theorists responded in a novel way to the dilemmas articulated in utilitarianism, developing in their different approaches a constructivist method in ethics, a method that aimed to vindicate a liberal, democratic and just political order.
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This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present. It locates the central themes of that theory in the intellectual legacy of utilitarianism, particularly the problems of defining principles of justice and of showing the grounds of moral obligation. It demonstrates how theorists responded in a novel way to the dilemmas articulated in utilitarianism, developing in their different approaches a constructivist method in ethics, a method that aimed to vindicate a liberal, democratic and just political order.
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