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Rationality in Leviathan: Hobbes and his game-theoretic admirers
Peacock, Mark - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12 (2005) 2, pp. 191-213
Game theoretic analyses of Hobbes' Leviathan proliferate. By considering elements of Leviathan, which have been … scrutinised inter alia by Gauthier, Hampton and Kavka, I argue that the approach capture Hobbes' notion of obligation … insufficiently. I search for a concept of rationality in Hobbes' work that goes beyond that of game theory and find one in his …
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On Hobbes's state of nature and game theory
Crettez, Bertrand - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 83 (2017) 4, pp. 499-511
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Unravelling into war : trust and social preferences in Hobbes's state of nature
Schaefer, Alexander; Sohn, Jin-yeong - In: Economics and philosophy 38 (2022) 2, pp. 171-205
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Why do lions get the lion's share? A Hobbesian theory of agreements
Esteban, Joan; Sakovics, Jozsef - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004
We propose a new bargaining solution, based on the idea - borrowed from Hobbes - that the agreement reached in a …
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Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict Reconstruction: How Can the Concept of Social Contract Help Us in Understanding How to Make Peace Work?
Hellsten, Sirkku K. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
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Social Contract: The Last Word in Moral Theories
Narveson, Jan - In: Rationality, Markets and Morals 4 (2013) 9
Most meta-ethical theories fail either for lack of real content or because they fail to make needed distinctions, or to give sufficient account of what a moral theory is about. Positing that values are intuited is useless or worse, since the very problem that gives rise to the need for morals is...
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Social Contract Theory: Hobbes, Kant and Buchanan Revisited. A Comparison of Historical thought Surrounding the Philosophical Consequences of the...
ROYCE, Ph.D. Canditate Mathias - In: Postmodern Openings 4 (2010) December, pp. 45-62
To what extent is a prevalent social order that is constructed upon the freedom of the individual impacted by decisions taken in the domain of positive economics? How does the Hobbesian reductionist view of the state of nature correlate to the Kantian view of selfruled individualism expressed...
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The Cyprus crisis in the mirror: the ‘small deposit tax’ as historical faux-pas
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Taxing small deposits used to be a taboo in European politics – but why? This contribution re-assesses the protection of small deposits from an angle that has not received much attention in the current debate: the politico-philosophical, ordo-liberal, and social-political perspectives, arguing...
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Private property, freedom and order : social contract theories from Hobbes to Rawls
Kanatli, Mehmet - 2022
). Drawing on the theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls, it studies how notions of freedom promulgated by these SCTs …
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