Studies in Political Phil.&ethics:Contractarianism

Course content

A study of the philosophical issues of the theories of “social contract”. The main topic of discussions is the concept of “agreement” (contract, compact and covenant) as one of the principal explanatory tools for political theory and ethics. The texts from which selections will be read are the writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant and John Rawls.