TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weale,Albert
TI  - Modern social contract theory
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191887963
AV  - JC336 
U1  - 320.11 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social contract
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - thema
N1  - This edition also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853541.001.0001
ER  -