Social Contract, Essays By Locke, Hume And Rousseau

Locke and Rousseau, if in different ways and different degrees, accepted the idea of the Social Contract: Hume, more historically minded, and more conservative in his convictions, was its critic. His sceptical intellect led him to approach political theories - the theory of divine right as well as the theory of Social Contract, but more especially the latter - with a touch of acid realism, which was mingled with a half-ironical suavity. 'There is something, ' he seems to say, 'in your different theories; but less, much less, than you think.'Baker, Ernest is the author of 'Social Contract, Essays By Locke, Hume And Rousseau', published 2007 under ISBN 9781406790696 and ISBN 1406790699.