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Apr 17, 2007 · Political Obligation. First published Tue Apr 17, 2007; substantive revision Mon Mar 15, 2021. This entry follows the traditional practice of equating political obligation with a moral duty to obey the law of one’s country or state.
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Apr 17, 2007 · To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one's country or state. On that point there is almost complete agreement among political philosophers. But how does one acquire such an obligation, and how many people have really done what is necessary to acquire it?
Political obligation thus refers to the moral duty of citizens to obey the laws of their state. In cases where an act or forbearance that is required by law is morally obligatory on independent grounds, political obligation simply gives the citizen an additional reason for acting accordingly.
Social Contract Theory | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.
The problem of political obligation has usually been understood conservatively. So understood, it is the problem of finding a sound justification for our intuitive conviction that most citizens (or at least those in certain familiar kinds of states) do in fact have political obligations.
According to the received reading of Locke’s doctrine of political consent, Locke presents consent as a deliberate act that constitutes an undertaking of obligation, and he requires political consent because (a) every person is a free, equal, and sovereign individual and (b) a free, equal, and sovereign individual cannot be subject to non-natura...
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Nov 9, 2005 · Simply by walking along the highways of a country a person gives tacit consent to the government and agrees to obey it while living in its territory. This, Locke thinks, explains why resident aliens have an obligation to obey the laws of the state where they reside, though only while they live there.
