The benefits of reasonable conduct:The Leviathan Theory of Obligation

Political Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 423-438

  Beackon, Steve ^a   Reeve, Andrew ^a  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84970713819     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: 15527476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009059177600400403     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See J. PM lamaenantz, and Society (London: Longmans, 1963) and B. Parekh and R. N. Berki, “The History of Political Ideas: A Critique of Q. Skinner's Methodology,” Journal of the History of Ideas 34 (1973), 163-184.
2. See Quentin Skinner, “The Ideological Context of Hobbes's Political Thought,” Historical Journal (1966), 286-317
3. Mark Gavre, “Hobbes and His Audience: The Dynamics of Theorizing,” American Political Science Review 68 (1974), 1542-1556.
4. Gordon Schochet, “Quentin Skinner's Method,” Political Theory 2 (1974), 2.73
5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946), p. 85. Further references to this work will be cited as Leviathan
6. David Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), has made a similar distinction between what he calls the “formal” and the “material” definitions of obligation given in L.eviathan
7. A.W.B. Simpson, “The Equitable Doctrine of Consideration and the Law of Uses,” Toronto Law Journal 16 (1965-1966), 35.
8. C.H.S. Fifoot, History and Sources of the Common Law (London: Stevens, 1949), pp. 397-399.
9. Simpson, “The Equitable Doctrine.…” See also A.W.B. Simpson, “The Place of Slade's Case in the History of Contract,” Law Quarterly Review 74 (1958), 387.
10. See A.W.B., Simpson, “The Penal Bond with Conditional Defeasance,” Law Quarterly Review 82 (1966), 393, and the reference to A.K.R. Kiralfy, The Action on the Case (London, 1951) on p. 421.
11. Simpson, “The Place of Slade's Case …,” p. 381
12. H. K. Lucke, “Slade's Case and the origins of the Common Counts,” Law Quarterly Review 81 (1966), 422 ff, 539ff. and vol. 82 (1967), 81ff.
13. J. H. Baker, “New Light on Slade's Case,” Cambridge Law Journal 29 (1971), 51-67, 213-236.
14. Simpson, “The Equitable Doctrine …,” p. 18.
15. Fifoot, History and Sources, p. 258.
16. Brian Barry, “Warrender and His Critics,” in Maurice Cranston and Richard S. Peters, eds., Hobbes and Rousseau (New York: Doubleday, 1972), pp. 37-65 at 52.
17. Barry, “Warrender …,” pp. 64-65.