Word: contractarian
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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...
...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...
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