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Apr 17, 2007 · As such, it provides a person with a categorical reason for action, one that does not depend on her inclinations or self-interest. Political obligation is also typically understood to be content-independent; that is, to be a duty to obey the law as such, or simply because it is the law [Hart 1982, pp. 254–55].
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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.
Apr 17, 2007 · In contrast, if “political” refers to the agent or entity to whom a person owes the obligation, then a theory of political obligation will be synonymous with a theory of the duty to obey the law, since it will aspire to explain why those who are subject to a particular state's jurisdiction, be they citizens or foreigners, have a moral duty to act as it directs them to act.
Oct 12, 2011 · This is why political obligation, according to associativists, does not need an ‘external justification’, (Justification and Legitimacy, pp. 95–6) i.e., a justification based on an independent moral principle such as consent or a natural duty of justice. What is required, instead, is some kind of hermeneutic effort aiming to uncover the ...
- Massimo Renzo
- 2012
political obligation is the fundamental or cen-. tral problem of political philosophy. This may. or may not be true: it depends on what we take. "political obligation" and "political philoso-. phy" to mean. Questions concerning obligation. are, of course, important to political philoso- phers and citizens alike.
Apr 17, 2007 · To have a political obligation, then, is not to have an obligation to obey laws a, b, and c, but perhaps not law d; it is to have a general obligation to obey the laws of one's polity as such. This general obligation, though, will not always require obedience to particular laws when all things are considered.
Abstract. By political obligation, theorists generally mean a moral requirement to obey the law of one's state or one's country. In the liberal tradition, liberty is a central value, and so the fact that some individuals should obey others must be explained. The liberal—or “modern”—view of political obligation is classically expressed ...
