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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... Human Dignity As empirically constructed and produced objects, works of art, even literary ones, point to a practice from which they abstain: the creation of a just life. —Theodor Adorno, “Commitment” There is an element of the world ...
... Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, ed. J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford, 1994). Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge, 1991). John Milton, Paradise Lost, in Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Indianapolis ...
... human beings naturally sociable, in which case only government was formed by a contract, or was a social contract the precondition of a political contract? Was the contract of government a consequence of natural law, according to which ...
... while natural rights theory contributed to the secularizing of conscience by virtue of its emphasis on passion, self-interest, and purely human agreements. On the opposing side, Hobbes and those royalists Introduction • 5.
... human contracts, history, and nature as contingent constructs, that is, as merely probable fictions or narratives rather than universal facts. In so doing, it prompted not only counterarguments but counternarratives. In the decade ...
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