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Buckley, Francis; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his...

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he Parent-Child Relation in Hobbes: Beyond Private Life and Public Reason (English version)

BILBA, Corneliu - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 32 (2011) March, pp. 172-193

We proposed a reading of Hobbes to analyze the way in which the issue of family and especially the parent … contract. For this purpose we applied to Hobbes Rawls’s distinction between the concept of justice and the political doctrine …

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Karl Marx’s Intellectual Roots in John Locke (English version)

ENGLE, Eric Allen - In: Postmodern Openings 7 (2011) September, pp. 29-37

Marx supposedly represents a radical break from liberal individualist property oriented thinking. In fact however, Marx integrates the best points of a variety of liberal individualists, notably Locke and Rousseau, but also to a lesser extent Aristotle and even Plato. Marx is an extension of,...

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A Constructionist Understanding of Social Contract Theory

SANDU, Antonio - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2012) 3, pp. 315-346

The social contract is an act of establishing meaning. Power relations can be understood as semiotic relations of establishing an interpretative will. Natural state, original state in most theories of social contract, is not only a pre-politic one, but also pre-semiotic. Contractualist theories...

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Economics and ethics: a historical approach

Ciani Scarnicci, Manuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Amartya Sen (1933-) is one of the greatest scholars who studied the relationship between ethics and economics and was held the Nobel Economics Prize thanks to this. At the awarding of the Nobel prize, while talking about his studies, the motive was: “...has been highly instrumental in...

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Social Contract: The Last Word in Moral Theories

Narveson, Jan - In: Rationality, Markets and Morals 4 (2013) 9

Most meta-ethical theories fail either for lack of real content or because they fail to make needed distinctions, or to give sufficient account of what a moral theory is about. Positing that values are intuited is useless or worse, since the very problem that gives rise to the need for morals is...

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The Cyprus crisis in the mirror: the ‘small deposit tax’ as historical faux-pas

Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Taxing small deposits used to be a taboo in European politics – but why? This contribution re-assesses the protection of small deposits from an angle that has not received much attention in the current debate: the politico-philosophical, ordo-liberal, and social-political perspectives, arguing...

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Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict Reconstruction: How Can the Concept of Social Contract Help Us in Understanding How to Make Peace Work?

Hellsten, Sirkku K. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Why do lions get the lion's share? A Hobbesian theory of agreements

Esteban, Joan; Sakovics, Jozsef - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004

We propose a new bargaining solution, based on the idea - borrowed from Hobbes - that the agreement reached in a …

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Master Or Servant: Language In Thomas Hobbes’ Political Philosophy

Pleshkov, Alexey A. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

Language theory is an important part of Hobbes’ intellectual legacy. Nevertheless, it seems that the value of language … can be understood only within political sphere. The role and place of language in Hobbes’ political theory should be … include Hobbes’ ideas in modern political and philosophical discourse. …

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