POLS 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 4 : Jeremy Waldron, The Principle, Hugo Grotius
30 Jan 2017
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It was not until the (cid:884)(cid:882)th century that this counter-discourse began to take. The publication of john rawls(cid:495) a theory of justice (cid:523)(cid:883)97(cid:883)(cid:524) and robert. Nozick(cid:495)s anarchy, state, and utopia (cid:523)(cid:883)974(cid:524) revived and reactivated the hold within europe itself in any significant way. In the early 1970s a particular variant of this formal or ideal theory came to predominate in the western academy. intellectual tradition of social contract theory. The notion of an original contract between such individuals is thus used as a device of representation to generate a normative theory which can then be used to critically examine actually existing practices. The purpose of this article is to reflect not only upon the limitations, but. P167 more importantly upon the political function of this approach, particularly when it is deployed as a resource for reflection on the political struggles and normative claims of the indigenous peoples in the settler-colonial societies of the anglo-american world.
