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Apr 17, 2007 · To have a political obligation, then, is to have a moral duty to obey the law. Margaret Gilbert has recently challenged this moralized characterization of political obligation (Gilbert 2006; Gilbert 2013).
- Anarchism
If all men have a continuing obligation to achieve the...
- Legal Obligation and Authority
Some have developed Rawls’ somewhat vague idea of a duty to...
- Rawls, John
John Rawls (b. 1921, d. 2002) was an American political...
- Civil Disobedience
The task of defending civil disobedience is commonly...
- Legitimacy, Political
A particular state’s legitimacy, understood as the capacity...
- Social Contract: Contemporary Approaches To
The “role of unanimous collective agreement” is in showing...
- Anarchism
According to Locke, political obligation must stem from an individual's own consent, and so must be self-assumed, based on a specific action or performance by each individual himself. Thomas Hobbes presented a fully modern theory of political obligation.
Feb 1, 2013 · Abstract. To have a political obligation is to have a duty to one's political community (perhaps to follow its laws, to defend it, to ensure its thriving, and so on) simply by virtue of one's membership in it.
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?
Jun 21, 2018 · This chapter aims to meet these challenges by setting out a coherent account of political obligation and providing reason to believe that neither political nor philosophical anarchists have made a satisfactory a priori case against the possibility of a compelling theory of political obligation.
Peoples’ political obligations constitute the core of the moral relationship that exists between them and their polities, and they are thus closely related to such corresponding concepts as the legitimacy or de jure authority of the state (see Authority; Legitimacy).
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Political Obligation. Why should I obey the law? Apart from the obvious prudential and self-interested reasons (to avoid punishment, loss of reputation, and so forth), is there a moral obligation to do what the law requires just because the law requires it?
