The Consent Theory Of Political Obligation

Author : Harry Beran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000704723

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The Consent Theory of Political Obligation by Harry Beran Pdf

First published in 1987. The theory that political obligation and authority are derived from the consent of citizens is commonly accepted in the history of Western political thought. It is expressed in the famous assertion of the American Declaration of Independence that governments derive ‘their just powers from the consent of the governed’ and in the constitutions of some Western powers. This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive restatement and defence of consent theory since the 19th Century. It distinguishes consent from contract theory, examines what the actual consent of citizens can consist in and what place it must have in liberal democratic theory. The consent theory’s relationship with ethics is explored and the major objections to the theory are countered. The author points to some political reforms which would increase the proportion of citizens in liberal democracies whose consent places them under political obligation. The book provides an overview of the current state of the consent theory of political obligation and authority.

Author : Harry Beran,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367230895

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The Consent Theory of Political Obligation by Harry Beran,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

First published in 1987. The theory that political obligation and authority are derived from the consent of citizens is commonly accepted in the history of Western political thought. It is expressed in the famous assertion of the American Declaration of Independence that governments derive 'their just powers from the consent of the governed' and in the constitutions of some Western powers. This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive restatement and defence of consent theory since the 19th Century. It distinguishes consent from contract theory, examines what the actual consent of citizens can consist in and what place it must have in liberal democratic theory. The consent theory's relationship with ethics is explored and the major objections to the theory are countered. The author points to some political reforms which would increase the proportion of citizens in liberal democracies whose consent places them under political obligation. The book provides an overview of the current state of the consent theory of political obligation and authority.

Author : Harry Beran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Allegiance
ISBN : 0709950772

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The Consent Theory of Political Obligation by Harry Beran Pdf

Author : Paul Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000706420

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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 : Mark C. Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320925

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Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics by Mark C. Murphy Pdf

Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murphy argues that the central thesis of natural law jurisprudence - that law is backed by decisive reasons for compliance - sets the agenda for natural law political philosophy, demonstrating how law gains its binding force by way of the common good of the political community. Murphy's work ranges over the central questions of natural law jurisprudence and political philosophy, including the formulation and defense of the natural law jurisprudential thesis, the nature of the common good, the connection between the promotion of the common good and requirement of obedience to law, and the justification of punishment.

Author : John P. Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X002191270

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Political Obligation by John P. Horton Pdf

Author : D. Mokrosinska,Dorota Mokrosi?ska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137025036

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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 : John Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137020529

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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 : Thomas McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Authority
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041248381

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Political Obligation by Thomas McPherson Pdf

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 : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199274956

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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 : John Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521891590

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Political Obligation in Its Historical Context by John Dunn Pdf

Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.

Author : John Petrov Plamenatz
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Consensus (Social sciences).
ISBN : UOM:39015005781748

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Consent, Freedom and Political Obligation by John Petrov Plamenatz Pdf

Author : Peter J. McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000706574

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Social Contract and Political Obligation by Peter J. McCormick Pdf

First published in 1987. This study is concerned with the problem of political obligation, the normative question of why one should obey the law, and with social contract thought as an answer to this question. It is entitled a critique, but the critique is not of social contract theory as such, but rather of the "orthodox" treatment of contract that yields so readily to the rough handling and easy rejection that is the normal lot of contractarianism in contemporary treatments. In its place will be suggested a reinterpretation of contract that sees it as making different assumptions and requiring different premises, and that is proof against many of the orthodox refutations of social contract theory; the reinterpretation is thus in the nature of a vindication. First, from an examination of the most commonly cited champions of contractarianism (namely Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau) will be derive a reinterpretation of contract in the form of a new model or syllogism, the features of which will be brought out by contrasting it first with the contemporary ideas of John Rawls and then with the orthodox model itself. Democratic consent theory, as the heir to the remnants of the orthodox model, will be examined, and the ideas of T. H. Green will be considered as embodying an important feature of contractarianism omitted or ignored by the orthodox model (and hence by democratic theory.) Finally, the new model of contract will be suggested as a potentially useful approach to the problem of political obligation in the modern context. This title will be of interest to student of politics and philosophy.

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509521241

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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 : Jules Steinberg
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015048736162

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Locke, Rousseau, and the Idea of Consent by Jules Steinberg Pdf

Steinberg addresses such questions as: How did the notion of a social contract develop? What did social contract mean to Locke and Rousseau? Can social contract describe the working basis of representative democracy?