Moral Principles And Political Obligations

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691213248

Get Book

Moral Principles and Political Obligations by A. John Simmons Pdf

Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons (if any), he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691020191

Get Book

Moral Principles and Political Obligations by A. John Simmons Pdf

Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons (if any), he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?

Author : D. Mokrosinska,Dorota Mokrosi?ska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137025036

Get Book

Rethinking Political Obligation by D. Mokrosinska,Dorota Mokrosi?ska Pdf

What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state? This book offers a fresh analysis of the debate concerning the moral obligation to obey the state, develops a novel account of political obligation and provides the first detailed argument of how a theory of political obligation can apply to subjects of an unjust state.

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191531309

Get Book

Political Obligations by George Klosko Pdf

Political Obligations provides a full defense of a theory of political obligation based on the principle of fairness (or fair play), which is widely viewed as the strongest theory of obligation currently available. The work responds to the most important objections to the principle of fairness, and extends a theory based on fairness into a developed 'multiple principle' theory of obligation. In order to establish the need for such a theory, Political Obligations criticizes alternative theories of obligation based on a natural duty of justice and 'reformist' consent, and critically examines the non-state theories of libertarian and philosophical anarchists. The work breaks new ground by providing the first in-depth study of popular attitudes towards political obligations and how the state itself views them. The attitudes of ordinary citizens are explored through small focus groups, while the 'self image of the state' in regard to the obligations of its citizens is studied through examination of judicial decisions in three different democratic countries.

Author : Paul Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000706420

Get Book

On Political Obligation by Paul Harris Pdf

First published in 1990. The individual’s obligation to obey the law, the state and the government is a fundamental part of contemporary political theory. The contributors to this volume, drawn from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, political science and law, take a fresh look at the dilemmas of political obligation. They discuss the extent to which we should allow the need for conformity to override individual liberties, and ask whether individualism is indeed feasible without a highly developed sense of the ‘public interest’ or the ‘common good‘. The contrast between individualism and communitarianism is examined throughout the book. The contributors also look at the various means through which the state can coerce or persuade the individual to be obedient. The emphasis throughout this collection is on the substantive problems themselves, rather than on the way these issues have been addressed in the history of political thought. The book offers a number of different perspectives on political obligation, and will be valuable to students of moral, political, social and legal philosophy.

Author : Margaret Gilbert,Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy Margaret Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199274956

Get Book

A Theory of Political Obligation by Margaret Gilbert,Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy Margaret Gilbert Pdf

Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in central, standard senses of the relevant terms membership in a political society in and of itself obligates one to support that society's political institutions. The obligations in questionare not moral requirements derived from general moral principles, as is often supposed, but a matter of one's participation in a special kind of commitment: joint commitment. An agreement is sufficient but not necessary to generate such a commitment. Gilbert uses the phrase 'plural subject' to referto all of those who are jointly committed in some way. She therefore labels the theory offered in this book the plural subject theory of political obligation.The author concentrates on the exposition of this theory, carefully explaining how and in what sense joint commitments obligate. She also explores a classic theory of political obligation --- actual contract theory --- according to which one is obligated to conform to the laws of one's country because one agreed to do so. She offers a new interpretation of this theory in light of a theory of plural subject theory of agreements. She argues that actual contract theory has more merit than has beenthought, though the more general plural subject theory is to be preferred. She compares and contrasts plural subject theory with identification theory, relationship theory, and the theory of fair play. She brings it to bear on some classic situations of crisis, and, in the concluding chapter,suggests a number of avenues for related empirical and moral inquiry.Clearly and compellingly written, A Theory of Political Obligation will be essential reading for political philosophers and theorists.

Author : Thomas Hill Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : UCAL:$B241879

Get Book

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation by Thomas Hill Green Pdf

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461645320

Get Book

The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation by George Klosko Pdf

In The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation, George Klosko presents the first book-length treatment of political obligation grounded in the premises of liberal political theory. In this now-classic work, he clearly and systematically formulates what others thought impossible-a principle of fairness that specifies a set of conditions which grounds existing political obligations and bridges the gap between the abstract accounts of political principles and the actual beliefs of political actors. Brought up-to-date with a new introduction, this new edition will be of great interest to all interested in political thought.

Author : Thomas Hill Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521278104

Get Book

Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings by Thomas Hill Green Pdf

The political writings of T. H. Green, with notes and an introductory essay.

Author : Margaret Gilbert
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191534577

Get Book

A Theory of Political Obligation by Margaret Gilbert Pdf

Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in central, standard senses of the relevant terms membership in a political society in and of itself obligates one to support that society's political institutions. The obligations in question are not moral requirements derived from general moral principles, as is often supposed, but a matter of one's participation in a special kind of commitment: joint commitment. An agreement is sufficient but not necessary to generate such a commitment. Gilbert uses the phrase 'plural subject' to refer to all of those who are jointly committed in some way. She therefore labels the theory offered in this book the plural subject theory of political obligation. The author concentrates on the exposition of this theory, carefully explaining how and in what sense joint commitments obligate. She also explores a classic theory of political obligation —- actual contract theory —- according to which one is obligated to conform to the laws of one's country because one agreed to do so. She offers a new interpretation of this theory in light of a theory of plural subject theory of agreements. She argues that actual contract theory has more merit than has been thought, though the more general plural subject theory is to be preferred. She compares and contrasts plural subject theory with identification theory, relationship theory, and the theory of fair play. She brings it to bear on some classic situations of crisis, and, in the concluding chapter, suggests a number of avenues for related empirical and moral inquiry. Clearly and compellingly written, A Theory of Political Obligation will be essential reading for political philosophers and theorists.

Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCLA:31158000947134

Get Book

The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley Pdf

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190603496

Get Book

Boundaries of Authority by A. John Simmons Pdf

Modern states claim rights of jurisdiction and control over particular geographical areas and their associated natural resources. Boundaries of Authority explores the possible moral bases for such territorial claims by states, in the process arguing that many of these territorial claims in fact lack any moral justification. The book maintains throughout that the requirement of states' justified authority over persons has normative priority over, and as a result severely restricts, the kinds of territorial rights that states can justifiably claim, and it argues that the mere effective administration of justice within a geographical area is insufficient to ground moral authority over residents of that area. The book argues that only a theory of territorial rights that takes seriously the morality of the actual history of states' acquisitions of power over land and the land's residents can adequately explain the nature and extent of states' moral rights over particular territories. Part I of the book examines the interconnections between states' claimed rights of authority over particular sets of subject persons and states' claimed authority to control particular territories. It contains an extended critique of the dominant "Kantian functionalist" approach to such issues. Part II organizes, explains, and criticizes the full range of extant theories of states' territorial rights, arguing that a little-appreciated Lockean approach to territorial rights is in fact far better able to meet the principal desiderata for such theories. Where the first two parts of the book concern primarily states' claims to jurisdiction over territories, Part III of the book looks closely at the more property-like territorial rights that states claim - in particular, their claimed rights to control over the natural resources on and beneath their territories and their claimed rights to control and restrict movement across (including immigration over) their territorial borders.

Author : John Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137020529

Get Book

Political Obligation by John Horton Pdf

How should we understand the relationship between citizens and governments, and what are the obligations of citizens? In this substantially revised new edition of an influential text, John Horton challenges dominant theories by offering an 'associative' account focusing particularly on what it is to be a member of a political community.

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509521241

Get Book

Why Should We Obey the Law? by George Klosko Pdf

Whether we should obey the law is a question that affects everyone’s day-to-day life, from traffic laws to taxes. Most people obey out of habit, but the question remains: why are we morally required to do so? If we fail to obey, the state may enforce compliance, but is it right for it to do this, and if so, why? In this book, George Klosko, a renowned authority on political obligation, skillfully probes these questions. He considers various prominent theories of obligation and shows why they are unconvincing, contending that only an approach that interweaves multiple principles, rooted in "fair play," is fully persuasive. Klosko develops the fullest statement of his own well-known theory of political obligation while providing a clear overview of the subject. The result is both an essential introductory text for students of political theory and philosophy and a cutting-edge, original contribution to the debate.

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521793653

Get Book

Justification and Legitimacy by A. John Simmons Pdf

This book contains essays by A. John Simmons, perhaps the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers.