Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xv
4. 1 How Coherent Is the Social Contract Tradition? 1
5. 2 Will and Legitimacy in the Philosophy of Hobbes 23
6. 3 Finding an Equilibrium between Consent and Natural Law in Locke's Political Philosophy 61
7. 4 A Possible Explanation of Rousseau's General Will 98
8. 5 Kant as the Most Adequate of the Social Contract Theorists 125
9. 6 Hegel on Consent and Social Contract Does He "Cancel and Preserve" the Theory: Will? 163
10. 7 Conclusion 200
11. Notes 217
12. Index 269