- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Judith N. Shklar’s Lectures on Political Obligation
-
Berkeley Lecture: Conscience and Liberty -
Lecture 1: Weizsäcker and Bonhoeffer -
Lecture 2: Antigone -
Lecture 3: Crito -
Lecture 4: Friendship -
Lecture 5: The New Testament and Martin Luther -
Lecture 6: Divided Loyalties -
Lecture 7: Honor and Richard II -
Lecture 8: Tyranny -
Lectures 9–13: Hobbes and Modern Contract Theory -
Lecture 14: Hegel and Ideology -
Lecture 15: The Positive State -
Lecture 16: Obedience -
Lecture 17: Military Obedience -
Lecture 18: Loyalty and Betrayal -
Lecture 19: Civil Disobedience in the Nineteenth Century -
Lecture 20: Civil Disobedience in the Twentieth Century -
Lecture 21: Conscientious Objection -
Lecture 22: Consent and Obligation -
Lecture 23: The Bonds of Exile -
Appendix I: Why Teach Political Theory? -
Appendix II: A Note on Sources - Index
Hobbes and Modern Contract Theory
Hobbes and Modern Contract Theory
- Chapter:
- (p.105) Lectures 9–13: Hobbes and Modern Contract Theory
- Source:
- On Political Obligation
- Author(s):
Judith N. Shklar
, Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
In these chapters Shklar takes the reader through the various aspects of early modern and modern contract theories of government. She looks into Hobbes’s fear of protracted civil war and what could be done about it discusses Locke’s response to Hobbes, and Hume’s, Rousseau’s and Kant’s theories of what consent means and what this implies for loyalty and obedience.
Keywords: contract theory, obedience, consent, modern morals, modern forms of obligation
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Judith N. Shklar’s Lectures on Political Obligation
-
Berkeley Lecture: Conscience and Liberty -
Lecture 1: Weizsäcker and Bonhoeffer -
Lecture 2: Antigone -
Lecture 3: Crito -
Lecture 4: Friendship -
Lecture 5: The New Testament and Martin Luther -
Lecture 6: Divided Loyalties -
Lecture 7: Honor and Richard II -
Lecture 8: Tyranny -
Lectures 9–13: Hobbes and Modern Contract Theory -
Lecture 14: Hegel and Ideology -
Lecture 15: The Positive State -
Lecture 16: Obedience -
Lecture 17: Military Obedience -
Lecture 18: Loyalty and Betrayal -
Lecture 19: Civil Disobedience in the Nineteenth Century -
Lecture 20: Civil Disobedience in the Twentieth Century -
Lecture 21: Conscientious Objection -
Lecture 22: Consent and Obligation -
Lecture 23: The Bonds of Exile -
Appendix I: Why Teach Political Theory? -
Appendix II: A Note on Sources - Index