| 书目名称 | Political Obligation | | 编辑 | John Horton | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The proper relationship between the individual and the wider political community is an issue which is both practically important and philosophically perplexing. Do we have an obligation to obey our government? If so, what is the basis of this obligation and what are its limits? These are questions which lie at the heart of the problem of political obligation..Historically, political philosophers have offered many and various answers to these questions. Some have thought that political obligation must be based on a voluntary undertaking to obey; others have argued that it derives from a general requirement to promote the common good or maximise well-being; and still others that it follows from a duty of fairness or justice. By contrast, anarchists have mostly denied that we have any such obligations to the polity at all..This book assesses the validity of these claims and the arguments for them. It seeks to show that all the traditional accounts of political obligation, including the anarchist denial of it, are in various ways unsatisfactory. Instead, it defends an account of political obligation which gives particular prominence to what it involved in being a member of a political | | 出版日期 | Textbook 1992Latest edition | | 关键词 | addition; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); anarchism; bibliography; community; consent; contract; indiv | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22286-5 | | copyright | Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992 |
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