Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

[Paperback]

by Usa.) Martyn P. Thompson (tulane University

Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
February 2021
Weight
500g

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£38.44

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

Today's Price £38.44

Frequently Bought Together

Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

by Usa.) Martyn P. Thompson (tulane University

Paperback

Sacred And The Profane

by Mircea Eliade

Paperback

Add both to basket for £52.22

Product Description

Originally published in 1987. This book analyses what Englishmen understood by the term contract in political discussions during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides evidence for reconsidering conventional accounts of the relationships between political ideas, groups and practices of the period. But also suggests cause for examining the general history of modern European contract theory. It considers contract as a term appearing in a spectrum of works from philosophical treatise to sermons and polemical pamphlets. Looking at the various vocabularies relating to contractualist ideas, the author suggests that standard histories of social contract theory and particular histories of English political thought during this unstable period have misrepresented the meaning of the term contract as a key term in political argument. He shows that there were in fact three different categories of contract theory but allows that the various kinds of contractualism did share certain broad features. This study of a crucial age in the history of appeals to contract in political argument will be of interest to political philosophers and historians.