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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-27 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 356
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book is the most comprehensive, rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work of Jean Hampton, Gregory Kavka, and D
Language: en
Pages: 230
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
"War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war. It shows that wars can be morally justified at both the ad bellum level (the political decision to
Language: en
Pages: 411
Pages: 411
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-27 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
How are we meant to behave? And how are we to defend whatever answer we give? Morals and Consent grounds our notion of morality in natural evolution, and from t
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hob