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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... individuals who rationally consent to their self-imposed government. In contrast to the medieval pact of subjection ... individual who consents to the political contract, seventeenth-century contract theorists were compelled to create a ...
... individuals examine, discover, or refashion the bonds of obligation. As Philip Hunton observed in his Treatise of ... individual obligation was the urgent political task. This political crisis proved to be uniquely fertile ground for ...
... individual conscience, while the other stressed the role of calculation, self-interest, and the natural right of ... individual right to resist the king. In the process, covenant theology radicalized natural rights theory by virtue of ...
... individual to break his covenant and form a new one—arguments all anathema to Hobbes. Together, then, Hobbes and Milton articulate the two poles of the new contractualism in mid-seventeenth-century England. As a result of the political ...
... individual cases of conscience and an art of reasoning specific to politics.10 At a time of such intense cultural ferment about issues of obligation both in the personal and political sphere, it was clear to all that the relationship ...
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