Contract, Culture, and Citizenship
Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls
The idea of the social contract has typically been seen in political theory as legitimating the exercise of governmental power and creating the moral basis for political order. Mark Button wants to draw our attention to an equally crucial, but seldom emphasized, role for the social contract: its educative function in cultivating the habits and virtues that citizens need to fulfill the promises that the social contract represents. In this book, he retells the story of social contract theory as developed by some of its major proponents-Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls-highlighting this constructive feature of the theory in order to show that…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-271-03382-2
- EAN: 9780271033822
- Produktnummer: 8259813
- Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.8 cm 444 g
- Gewicht: 444
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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