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Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism, This book constitutes the first 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, Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
  • Written by author Jody S. Kraus
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, January 1994
  • This book constitutes the first 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
  • This book constitutes the first sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism.
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Acknowledgments
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1Introduction1
A general characterization of contractarianism2
The three-stage contractarian argument schema4
Realistic and idealistic constructionism22
The renaissance of Hobbesian contractarianism27
Overview: themes and theories36
2Hampton's justificatory strategy47
Overview of Hampton's justificatory strategy48
Conflict in the state of nature56
The inferential argument63
The reduction of morality to rationality73
3Hampton's internal solution: a dilemma104
The rational emergence of a sovereign in the state of nature: a dilemma107
The problem of selecting a sovereign109
The individual irrationality of empowering a sovereign: the first horn of the dilemma119
The individual irrationality of deposing a sovereign: the second horn of the dilemma174
4Kavka's hybrid contractarianism184
Overview of Kavka's theory188
Reconceiving the Hobbesian contractarian project204
Kavka's justificatory strategies215
The realistic reconstruction account216
The "no reasonable objection" account219
The inheritance principle account225
5Gauthier's moral contractarianism254
From political to moral Hobbesian contractarianism255
Gauthier's moral contractarianism258
Fairness and stability273
Broad and narrow compliance283
Narrow compliance and predation289
Displaced costs and rational compliance292
Translucence and compliance294
Narrow compliance and equal rationality296
The arguments from rational and costless bargaining304
6The limits of Hobbesian contractarianism310
Index321


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