books.google.co.uk - These essays contest the truism that the social contract is a modern political idea. Just as Rawls came to acknowledge that his political theory built in the parochial horizon of his time, Hobbes's Grotius's, and Locke's theories presuppose their ancien regime world. Despite their universalizing language....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Contract_Theory_in_Historical_Context_Es.html?id=ulxxVUH9EE4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareContract Theory in Historical Context: Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke
