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...Koch goes on, without any explicit analysis, to invoke the names of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill. He attempts to paraphrase this assemblage of Moral Reasoning luminaries: "natural law properly authorizes the sovereign to take life in order to vindicate justice." Koch's mistranslation of social contractarian arguments looks more like totalitarianism than democracy...

Author: By Sean L. Mckenna, | Title: Koch and Punishment | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...could be the basis for a new contractarian philosophical system with a different base than Conant University Professor John Rawls' "original position"--the theory currently holding away over the field of political philosophy...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Tim Scanlon | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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