Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Fichte's Works -- Introduction -- 1 Fichte's theory of property -- Fichte on property -- Property and freedom -- 2 Applying the concept of right: Fichte and Babeuf --...

Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use...