1st Edition
Private Property, Freedom, and Order Social Contract Theories from Hobbes To Rawls
Introduction
1. The conceptual framework of private property and its relation with freedom and order
2. A critical evaulation of the main elements of contractarian approach
3. The relation between private property, freedom and order in pioneers of the modern social contract theories: Hobbes and Locke
4. Eighteenth-Century France and Rousseauian formulation of private property, freedom and order
5. Revitalization of social contract theory in terms of the relation between private property, freedom and order: the case of John Rawls
Conclusion
Biography
Mehmet Kanatli is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Hitit University, Turkey. He received his MA from the Political Theory programme at Manchester University, UK and his PhD from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He is interested in a wide range of social science disciplines from international relations to political theory, with a specialization in theories of democracies, political ideologies, and political thought.
