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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... Conscience Natural Rights Theory: The Social Contract and the Linguistic Contract The Common Law: Magna Carta and Economic Contract Covenant Theology: Divine Speech Acts and the Covenant of Metaphor CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary ...
... conscience. This battle was replayed in the Renaissance between Machiavelli on the one hand and Luther and Calvin on the other. Against this mystified discourse of conscience and contract, Nietzsche counterposed a demystified discourse ...
... conscience or because of some material evidence—some “consideration” or benefit— which established the secular validity of a contract. For many writers the appeal to the moral law of conscience was incendiary because it licensed ...
... conscience, while the other stressed the role of calculation, self-interest, and the natural right of self-preservation. In the first case, contracts were governed by the divine and natural law that promises must be kept; in the second ...
... conscience and natural rights, promise and contract.8 This was a subject motivated not only by the claims of conscience but also by his passions and interests. This was a subject who could bind himself (the pronoun is part of this ...
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