The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent - Paul R. DeHart - Books - University of Missouri Press - 9780826223050 - September 14, 2026
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The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent

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Argues that any intelligible account of the claim that consent forms a necessary condition for political authority and obligation depends necessarily on the sort of morally and metaphysically realist account of natural law that one finds in, say, St Thomas Aquinas. The real conflict lies between social contract theory and modernist metaphysics.


416 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
To be released September 14, 2026
ISBN13 9780826223050
Publishers University of Missouri Press
Pages 476
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 46 mm   ·   821 g

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