The limits of Hobbesian contractarianism / Jody S. Kraus.
1993
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The limits of Hobbesian contractarianism / Jody S. Kraus.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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JC153.H66 K73 1993
ISBN
0521420628 (hard)
Description
xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28339788
Note
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 1987
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Selected bibliography
1
Introduction
1
A general characterization of contractarianism
2
The three-stage contractarian argument schema
4
Realistic and idealistic constructionism
22
The renaissance of Hobbesian contractarianism
27
Overview: themes and theories
36
2
Hampton's justificatory strategy
47
Overview of Hampton's justificatory strategy
48
Conflict in the state of nature
56
The inferential argument
63
The reduction of morality to rationality
73
3
Hampton's internal solution: a dilemma
104
The rational emergence of a sovereign in the state of nature: a dilemma
107
The problem of selecting a sovereign
109
The individual irrationality of empowering a sovereign: the first horn of the dilemma
119
The individual irrationality of deposing a sovereign: the second horn of the dilemma
174
4
Kavka's hybrid contractarianism
184
Overview of Kavka's theory
188
Reconceiving the Hobbesian contractarian project
204
Kavka's justificatory strategies
215
The realistic reconstruction account
216
The "no reasonable objection" account
219
The inheritance principle account
225
5
Gauthier's moral contractarianism
254
From political to moral Hobbesian contractarianism
255
Gauthier's moral contractarianism
258
Fairness and stability
273
Broad and narrow compliance
283
Narrow compliance and predation
289
Displaced costs and rational compliance
292
Translucence and compliance
294
Narrow compliance and equal rationality
296
The arguments from rational and costless bargaining
304
6
The limits of Hobbesian contractarianism
310
Index
321