TY - BOOK AU - Morris,Christopher W. TI - The social contract theorists: critical essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau T2 - Critical essays on the classics SN - 0847689069 AV - JC336. S526 1999 U1 - 320.11 PY - 1999///] CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Hobbes, Thomas, KW - Locke, John, KW - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, KW - Social contract N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242); Hobbes's war of all against all / Gregory S. Kavka -- Hobbes's "Mortall God": is there a fallacy in Hobbes's theory of sovereignty? / M.M. Goldsmith -- The failure of Hobbes's social contract argument / Jean Hampton -- Hobbes's social contract / David Gauthier -- Why ought one obey God? Reflections on Hobbes and Locke / David Gauthier -- Locke's state of nature / A. John Simmons -- Political consent / A. John Simmons -- Structure, choice, and legitimacy: Locke's theory of the state / Joshua Cohen -- A possible explanation of Rousseau's general will / Patrick Riley -- Reflections on Rousseau: autonomy and democracy / Joshua Cohen -- Rousseau, the problem of sovereignty and the limits of political obligation / John Charvet -- The general will / Arthur Ripstein ER -