The Magna Aurea Podcast Episode 6: What is social contract theory with Gary Steiner, Ph.D. We discuss social contract theory and some of the major social contract theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rosseau, and John Rawls. Professor Steiner also discusses the Marx critique of the social contract.

Gary Steiner is Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University.

BOOKS MENTIONED

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Hobbes’s Leviathan
Locke’s Two Treatises
Rousseau’s Social Contract

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