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Modern Social Contract Theory (Hardcover)
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Modern Social Contract Theory (Hardcover)
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Modern Social Contract Theory provides 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. A distinctive feature of the book is its comparative
approach. By placing the works of Barry, Buchanan and Tullock,
Harsanyi, Gauthier, Grice, Rawls, and Scanlon alongside one
another, similarities and differences are brought out, most notably
in the way in which principles are derived by each author from the
contractual construction as well as the extent to which the
obligation to adopt those principles can be rationally grounded.
Each theory is placed in its particular intellectual context.
Special attention is paid to the contrasting theories of
rationality adopted by the different authors, whether that be
utility theory or a deliberative conception of rationality, with
the intention of assessing how far the principles advanced can be
justified by reference to the hypothetical choices of rational
contracting agents. The book concludes with a discussion of some
principal objections to the enterprise of contract theory, and
offers its own programme for the future of that theory taking the
form of the empirical method.
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