The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 January 1994
- ISBN 9780521420624
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 229x152x24 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This 1994 book constitutes a sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism.
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This 1994 book constitutes a sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work of Jean Hampton, Gregory Kavka, and David Gauthier. Professor Kraus argues that the attempts by these three philosophers to use Hobbes to answer current political and moral questions fail. The reasons why they fail are related to fundamental problems intrinsic to Hobbesian contractarianism: first, the problem of collective action arising out of the tension in Hobbes's theory between individual and collective rationality; second, the classical problem of explaining the normative force of hypothetical action, a problem that can be traced to the conflicting strategies of hypothetical justification found in Rawls's and Hobbes's theories. Given the deep interest in Hobbesian contractarianism among philosophers, political theorists, game theorists in economics and political science, and legal theorists, this book is likely to attract wide attention and infuse life into the contractarian debate.
'Kraus presents the most thorough analysis and critique of contractarian methodology I have seen. His book is likely to become the standard reference on modern contractarian theories in the Hobbesian tradition.' Gregory Kavka, University of California, Irvine
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Selected bibliography; 1. Introduction; 2. Hampton's justificatory strategy; 3. Hampton's internal solution: a dilemma; 4. Kavka's hybrid contractarianism; 5. Gauthier's moral contractarianism; 6. The limits of Hobbesian contractarianism; Index.
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