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Apr 17, 2007 · This entry follows the traditional practice of equating political obligation with a moral duty to obey the law of one’s country or state. How does one acquire such an obligation, and how many people have really done what is necessary to acquire it?
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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?
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?
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.
Oct 12, 2011 · The reason why we make these assumptions is that we want to justify political obligation for people like us. We do not exist in a social vacuum and thus we do not want to justify political obligation for hypothetical individuals that exist in a social vacuum, as this would be a futile exercise.
- Massimo Renzo
- 2012
Aug 5, 2009 · Some concepts need more prominence — the duty to preserve mankind, the right of war, and private judgment; others need less — consent, majority rule, and property. Locke's aim was not to show that political obligation rests upon consent: that is assumed without argument.
Urmson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968); and T. D. Weldon, The Vocabulary of Politics (London: Penguin, 1953) for the argument that the problem of political obligation is impossible to solve because there can be no general theory of political obligation.
