Social contract in the ruins, the: natural law and government by consent
Auteur :
DeHart, Paul R.
Éditeur :
University of Missouri Press
ISBN :
9780826223050
Date de publication :
29 juil. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 4,6 cm
Poids :
821 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that any intelligible account of the claim that consent forms a necessary condition for political authority and obligation depends necessarily on the sort of morally and metaphysically realist account of natural law that one finds in, say, St Thomas Aquinas. The real conflict lies between social contract theory and modernist metaphysics.