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The paper offers a critical review of the social contract theory proposed by four leading representatives of Scottish Enlightenment: David Hume, Henry Home (Lord Kames), Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. The views of those thinkers on the origin of the state order differed from those proposed by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke or Samuel Pufendorf. The eighteenth century Scottish philosophers generally rejected...
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