Civil disobedience and violence.
By: Edited by Jeffrie G. Murphy.
Series: Basic problems in philosophy series
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub. Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Belmont, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Civil disobedience -- United States; Civil rights -- United States
Description: Essays by philosophers, social activists, and scholars on what constitutes civil disobedience and what separates it from the revolutionary.
Table of contents: title: On disobeying the law, by Socrates.; title: On the duty of civil disobedience, by H. D. Thoreau.; title: Legal obligation and the duty of fair play, by J. Rawls.; title: Social protest and civil obedience, by S. Hook.; title: The Vietnam War and the right of resistance, by J. G. Murphy.; title: Civil disobedience: prerequisite for democracy in mass society, by C. Bay.; title: Non-violence, by M. K. Gandhi.; title: A fallacy on law and order: that civil disobedience must be absolutely nonviolent, by H. Zinn.; title: On not prosecuting civil disobedience, by R. Dworkin.; title: Law and authority, by P. Kropotkin.; title: Bibliography (p. 146-151)