The Problem Of Political Obligation

Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520056503
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Obligation written by Carole Pateman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 Pateman examines the notion of political obligation in relation to the liberal democratic state and presents a vision of participatory democracy as a means to effect a more satisfactory relationship between the citizen and the state. She offers a general assessment of liberal theory and an interpretation of all familiar arguments about political obligation and democratic consent. Pateman examines the notion of political obligation in relation to the liberal democratic state and presents a vision of participatory democracy as a means to effect a more satisfactory relationship between the citizen and the state. She offers a general assessment of liberal theory and an interpretation of all familiar arguments about political obligation and democratic consent.

Author : Noel O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000706494
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Obligation written by Noel O'Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. This study is an attempt to distinguish the problem of political obligation as it was formulated in the ancient world from the problem as it has presented itself in the modern world, and assesses the idealist achievement in the philosophical treatment of the problem of political obligation. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy and politics.

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213240
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Principles and Political Obligations written by A. John Simmons and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margaret Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199274959
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Political Obligation written by Margaret Gilbert and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Horton
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333367858
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Obligation written by John Horton and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reviews and criticizes the current justifications of political obligation - the relationship between the individual and the political community - in terms of contract, consent, utility, fair play, common good and suchlike, in addition to assessing the anarchist denial of political obligation. The book also sets out an alternative approach to the problem which challenges many of the standard ideas about political obligation.

Author : D. Mokrosinska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137025034
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Political Obligation written by D. Mokrosinska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137281669
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Authority written by Michael Huemer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645328
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation written by George Klosko and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Dagger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199388830
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Fair written by Richard Dagger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses two long-standing concerns of political and legal philosophy: the problems of political obligation and of punishment. Even though political obligation and punishment are often treated as independent topics and there are broad literatures on each, Richard Dagger sees them as closely related problems and attempts to resolve them together. Dagger first establishes the principle of fair play--the idea that citizens in a cooperative venture have obligations to each other to shoulder a fair share of the burdens because they receive a fair share of the benefits of cooperation--as the basis of political obligation. Dagger then argues that the members of a reasonably just polity have an obligation to obey its laws because they have an obligation of reciprocity or fair play to one another. This theory of political obligation then provides answers to fundamental and still debated questions about how to justify punishment, who has the right to carry it out, and how much to punish. He concludes by bringing the two concerns together to rebuke those who deny the possibility of a general obligation to obey the law, to defend the link between political authority and obligation, and to establish the proper scope of criminal law"--

Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher : Chichester ; New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Obligation written by Carole Pateman and published by Chichester ; New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most recent discussions of the political authority of the liberal democratic state and the political obligation of its citizens are based on one of two assumptions: that general problems about political obligation have now been resolved or are easily resolvable; or that no such problems exist. One aim of this book is to show that the latter assumption is unfounded and that political obligation is inherently problematic. My larger aim, which is both more substantive and more controversial, is to show that political obligation in the liberal democratic state constitutes an insoluble problem; insoluble because political obligation cannot be given expression within the context of liberal democratic institutions. The problem of political obligation can be solved only through the development of the theory and practice of participatory or self-managing democracy." [Introduction].