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The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent Paul R. DeHart
The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent
Paul R. DeHart
Argues that any intelligible account of the claim that consent forms a necessary condition for political authority and obligation depends necessarily on the sort of morally and metaphysically realist account of natural law that one finds in, say, St Thomas Aquinas. The real conflict lies between social contract theory and modernist metaphysics.
416 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | June 17, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9780826223050 |
| Publishers | University of Missouri Press |
| Pages | 476 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 454 g |