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The Logic of Social Contracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

J. F. M. Hunter
J. F. M. Hunter
Affiliation:
University College, Toronto
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In this paper I am using the word ‘logic’ in an extended sense. If anyone finds my use objectionable, he will at least find that nothing hangs on it; and if the word as used in this context conveys no information to any person, he will not be the poorer, because as he reads on, he will soon see the class of questions with which the paper deals.

Some of the points I will make will be familiar enough, but I think I do also break some new ground; and anyway I think there is an advantage in bringing these considerations together so as to produce a relatively full discussion in a short space.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , June 1966 , pp. 31 - 46
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1966

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* I have dodged the question whether only God has a right over human lives, because if that is the case, then the matter is settled, with or without social contract theory.