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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1986. 290 pgs. Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly" that some men be damned? The theological origin of the "general will" was important to Rousseau himself. He uses the language of divinity bequeathed to him by Pascal, Malebranche, Fenelon, and others to dignify, to elevate, and to "save" politics. EB; Studies In Moral, Political, And Legal Philosophy; 9.3 X 6.4 X 0.9 inches; 294 pages.…