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A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · Harvard University Press (Belknap Press) · 1971
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Social contract theories ground political authority in agreement or hypothetical consent; Hobbes (1651), Locke (1689), Rousseau (1762) and Rawls (1971) are canonical versions that differ on what is agreed, by whom, and why.
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