Political obligation
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Political obligation
（Issues in political theory）
Macmillan Press, 1992
- : pbk.
Available at / 14 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
ISBN 9780333367841
Description
This text reviews and criticizes the current justifications of political obligation - the relationship between the individual and the political community - in terms of contract, consent, utility, fair play, common good and suchlike, in addition to assessing the anarchist denial of political obligation. The book also sets out an alternative approach to the problem which challenges many of the standard ideas about political obligation.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: political obligation as a problem
- one problem or many?
- political philosophy
- justifying political obligation. Part 2 Voluntarist theories: voluntarism and political obligation
- consent
- political obligation and consent
- the limits of voluntarism. Part 3 Teleological theories: the structure and forms of utilitarianism
- utilitarianism and political obligation
- Hare's utilitarian accounts of political obligation
- political obligation and the common good. Part 4 Deontological theories: hypothetical consent
- fair play and political obligation
- natural duty, political obligation and gratitude
- Rawls' duty to uphold just institutions. Part 5 Anarchism - political and philosophical: anarchism and political obligation
- individualist anarchism
- communal anarchism
- philosophical anarchism
- philosophical anarchism and the polity. Part 6 Political obligation reconsidered: the conceptual argument
- political obligation and the family
- identity and political obligation
- membership and political obligation
- law, government and political obligation
- epitaph for political obligations?
- Volume
-
: pbk. ISBN 9780333367858
Description
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 community and challenges the reader to think through what it is to have a political identity as a member of a particular society, and the implications of this for how one should act.
Table of Contents
1: INTRODUCTION Political Obligation as a Problem One Problem or Many? Political Philosophy Justifying Political Obligation 2: VOLUNTARIST THEORIES Voluntarism and Political Obligation Consent Political Obligation and Consent The Limits of Voluntarism 3: TELEOLOGICAL THEORIES The Structure and Forms of Utilitarianism Utilitarianism and Political Obligation Hare's Utilitarian Account of Political Obligation Political Obligation and the Common Good 4: DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES Hypothetical Consent Fair-Play and Political Obligation Natural Duty, Political Obligation and Gratitude Rawls' Duty to Uphold Just Institutions 5: ANARCHISM: POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL Anarchism and Political Obligation Individualist Anarchism Communal Anarchism Philsophical Anarchism Philosophical Anarchism and the Polity 6: POLITICAL OBLIGATION RECONSIDERED The Conceptual Argument Political Obligation and the Family Identity and Political Obligation Membership and Political Obligation Law, Government and Political Obligation Epitaph for Political Obligation? 7: CONCLUSION Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
