Hume and Contractarianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick G Whelan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-224 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3235173 |
| OpenAlex | W2320288576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
David Hume's opposition to contractarian political theory, most famously expressed in "Of the Original Contract," is not as complete as prevailing interpretations suggest. On the issues of requiring consent from the governed and the permissibility of resistance to oppression, he is less far from the contractarian position than is normally assumed. However he diverges strongly from the contractarians in denying both their individualist premises about the internal ordering of society and their conceptions of sovereign states as moral and legal persons in external affairs
Individualism · Law and economics · Opposition (politics · Oppression · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social contract · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2021 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |