Rethinking Political Obligation [electronic resource] : Moral Principles, Communal Ties, Citizenship /
Mokrosińska, Dorota.author.
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.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 The Problem of Political Obligation; 1 Political obligation and the authority of the state; 2 An obligation to obey; 3 What makes political obligation political ?; 4 The Simple View; 5 Plan of the book; 2 Consent and Gratitude; 1 Consent; 2 Consent as a source of obligation; 3 Consent as a source of political obligation; 4 The Problem of Private Reasons - I; 5 The Problem of Private Reasons - II; 6 Socialised consent theory; 7 Gratitude; 8 Is gratitude an obligation?
9 Gratitude as a source of political obligation3 Linguistic Practice; 4 Well-Being and Justice; 1 The Necessity Argument; 2 The Optimisation Argument; 3 The optimific and the obligation to obey; 4 (Im)perfect duties and the obligation to obey; 5 The anarchist challenge - I; 6 Individual or collective obedience?; 7 The anarchist challenge - II; 8 Natural duties as grounds for political obligation; 5 Affiliation; 1 The associative character of political obligation; 2 Which affiliation?; 3 The argument from identity; 4 What is normative about identity?
4.1 The first proposal: identity reflects value4.2 The second proposal: identity constitutes value; 4.3 The third proposal: identity chooses value; 5 The argument from special relationships; 6 Affiliation through private reasons?; 6 Fairness; 1 The Kantian core of the fairness principle; 2 Fairness and content-independent obedience; 3 Fairness as grounds for political obligation; 7 Civil Justice; 1 Public reasons; 2 Values internal to relationships; 3 Civil justice; 4 Civil justice and natural duties: differences; 5 Civil justice as grounds for political obligation
6 Content-independent obedience7 Civil justice as grounds for political obligation; 7.1 The Particularity Requirement; 7.2 Public reasons; 8 The Obligations of Civil Justice and Unjust States; 1 The Polish case; 2 The first episode; 3 The second episode; 4 The third episode; 5 The fourth episode; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Political theory.
Political science
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Philosophy of law.
Political science.
Ethics.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Philosophy of Law.
Political Science.
Ethics.