Name: The Social Contract. Political Equality from Putney to Rawls
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Author: William A. Edmundson
ISBN: 9781009395267

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The Social Contract. Political Equality from Putney to Rawls

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

William A. Edmundson

Year

2025

Pages

252

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781009395267

The Social Contract. Political Equality from Putney to Rawls

William A. Edmundson (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Social Contract. Political Equality from Putney to Rawls"

We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. But how is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? This book explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in Rawls.

We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. Or is this mere fiction? How is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? William Edmundson explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in the work of John Rawls. The idea that legitimate government rests on the consent of free equals took shape in the seventeenth century and was developed in the eighteenth but fell into disuse in the nineteenth century even as democracy, toleration, and limited government gained ground. Edmundson shows how Rawls revived the idea of a social contract in the mid-twentieth century to secure these gains, as the then-dominant moral theories, such as utilitarianism, could not. The book also defends Rawls''s conviction that political equality is integral to the idea of reciprocity at the heart of the tradition.