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How does social contract theory provide a means to resolve ethical dilemmas? Was this the right decision? Or should he have practiced civil disobedience and fled Athens to philosophize another day? How did his assumptions about human nature lead him to his particular view of social contract theory and how did it shape his political solution and the emphasis that the right thing for citizens to do is to obey sovereign power? How did his version of social contract theory influence the emergence of modern democracy and the US political system? How would things change in the veil of ignorance if in the process of making a social contract, you did not know if you would be a human or nonhuman animal? The Social Contract Essay

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See all 5 brand new listings. Buy It Link. Add to cart. About this product Product Information Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' Scial interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position.

Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is anexcellent thinker in his own right, and these articles will be useful to a wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and the expanse of his influence. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition.

Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views2. Utilitarian, Deontology, and the Priority of Right3. Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism5. Freeman's clear, careful, and deeply informed studies in these essays offer important insight about basic questions of interpretation and justification--about Rawls's contractualism, about his relation to utilitarianism, about the idea of public reason, and about his reasons for limiting his principles of distributive justice to the self-contained nation-state.]