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2015-09-28T16:20:53Z 10000-01-01 1997 Jeff McMahan Janowski, James Dale 2015-09-28T16:20:53Z 1997 The dissertation explores the relation between the varieties of contractarianism and legitimate political authority. The first chapter defines the idea of legitimacy and responds to two objections to the project. The second chapter examines the idea of a social contract and defends its use as the proper heuristic for understanding political authority. Drawing on the link between group membership and obligation, the third chapter develops an account of actual contractarianism which highlights the connection between actual popular support and stability. The fourth chapter, appealing to recent work by Scanlon and Nagel, explores the implications of the idea of hypothetical unanimity for thinking about morally rightful political institutions. The final chapter articulates the uneasy relation between popular support and ideal justice, and discusses the role played by judgment in understanding legitimacy. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:20:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9717287.pdf: 8339701 bytes, checksum: 8c82cea1f27f5772aa7c491409042b17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88886 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 156 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87605 (MiAaPQ)AAI9717287 eng Political Science, General Contractarianism and Legitimacy text Philosophy Philosophy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.