Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674Princeton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 392 páginas Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. |
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... According to Nietzsche, the emergence of the contracting subject coincided with the development of Judeo-Christian notions of conscience, subjectivity, and ethical responsibility. Contract theory was implicated in the ongoing battle ...
... according to which humans are equal in the state of nature; or a consequence of the illegibility of natural law, which in turn dictated a purely conventional agreement among individuals and the arbitrary imposition of sovereignty? The ...
... according to divine and natural law that there be a political hierarchy.11 A few late medieval neoscholastic writers, such as Vitoria, Molina, De Soto, and Sua ́rez, did conceive of government in terms of consent to a political contract ...
... according to which individuals in a state of nature joined together to create the artifacts of society and government.19 In the 1580s French Huguenot resistance theorists such as Beza, Hotman, and the author of the Vindiciae contra ...
... According to Wildman, what made a contract binding was the individual's interpretation that it conformed to “the law of nature and of nations,” to justice, salus populi, and the right of self-preservation. In contrast, the army officers ...
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