Political and Legal Obligation

ISBN-13: 9781138530034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 474 str.

J. Roland Pennock

Opis

At a point in history marked by dramatic challenges to the existing political and social order, the question of legal and political obligation emerges as a focal point of international concern

Spis treści

Legal, Moral, and Political Obligation; 1: Legal and Moral Obligation; 2: In Defense of Obligation; 3: Obligation and Obedience; 4: Obligation: Political, Legal, Moral; 5: Obligation, Ideals, and Ability; 6: Obligation: Political and Moral; 7: The Moral Foundations of Political Obligation; Obligation and the Conditions of Obedience; 8: Constitutional Obligation; 9: On Feeling Obligated to Do What a Constitution Requires; 10: Causes and Effects of Constitutional Compliance; 11: Rome: Fides and Obsequium, Rise and Fall; 12: Political Obligation and Collective Goods; Civil Disobedience; 13: Civil Disobedience: Its Occasions and Limits; 14: A Contextual Approach to Disobedience; 15: Some Truths and Untruths About Civil Disobedience; 16: Political Alienation and Military Service; 17: Political Change Through Civil Disobedience in the Ussr and Eastern Europe; 18: Gandhi’s Synthesis of Indian Spirituality and Western Politics

O autorze

J. Roland Pennock