The Social Contract - Edmundson, William A.
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"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"--

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"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"--
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William A. Edmundson is Regents' Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Georgia State University. He is the author of Three Anarchical Fallacies (Cambridge 1998); An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge 2nd ed. 2012); John Rawls: Reticent Socialist (Cambridge 2017); and Socialism for Soloists (Polity 2021). He has written on democracy, animal rights, distributive justice, moral responsibility, coercion, political obligation, moral relativism, capital punishment, privacy, civility, and other topics.