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What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state?
Dorota Mokrosinska presents a fresh analysis of the most influential theories of political obligation and develops a novel approach to this foundational problem of political philosophy, an intriguing combination of the elements of natural duty and associative theories. The theory of political obligation developed in the book extends the scope of the contemporary debate on political obligation by arguing that political obligation can be binding even under the jurisdiction of unjust states. The arguments pursued in the book are illustrated with the results of sociological research concerning the reasons that governed people's attitudes to the authoritarian communist regimes in East Europe viz. communist Poland. This book provides the first detailed argument of how a theory of political obligation can apply to subjects of an unjust state.
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| The Problem of Political Obligation | p. 1 |
| Political obligation and the authority of the state | p. 2 |
| An obligation to obey | p. 4 |
| What makes political obligation political? | p. 5 |
| The Simple View | p. 6 |
| Plan of the book | p. 9 |
| Consent and Gratitude | p. 12 |
| Consent | p. 13 |
| Consent as a source of obligation | p. 14 |
| Consent as a source of political obligation | p. 15 |
| The Problem of Private Reasons û I | p. 17 |
| The Problem of Private Reasons û II | p. 18 |
| Socialised consent theory | p. 22 |
| Gratitude | p. 26 |
| Is gratitude an obligation? | p. 27 |
| Gratitude as a source of political obligation | p. 30 |
| Linguistic Practice | p. 33 |
| Well-Being and Justice | p. 39 |
| The Necessity Argument | p. 39 |
| The Optimisation Argument | p. 43 |
| The optimific and the obligation to obey | p. 44 |
| (Im)perfect duties and the obligation to obey | p. 46 |
| The anarchist challenge û I | p. 49 |
| Individual or collective obedience? | p. 51 |
| The anarchist challenge - II | p. 54 |
| Natural duties as grounds for political obligation | p. 58 |
| Affiliation | p. 67 |
| The associative character of political obligation | p. 68 |
| Which affiliation? | p. 72 |
| The argument from identity | p. 74 |
| What is normative about identity? | p. 76 |
| The first proposal: identity reflects value | p. 77 |
| The second proposal: identity constitutes value | p. 78 |
| The third proposal: identity chooses value | p. 83 |
| The argument from special relationships | p. 89 |
| Affiliation through private reasons? | p. 94 |
| Fairness | p. 99 |
| The Kantian core of the fairness principle | p. 100 |
| Fairness and content-independent obedience | p. 105 |
| Fairness as grounds for political obligation | p. 106 |
| Civil Justice | p. 110 |
| Public reasons | p. 111 |
| Values internal to relationships | p. 112 |
| Civil justice | p. 117 |
| Civil justice and natural duties: differences | p. 119 |
| Civil justice as grounds for political obligation | p. 124 |
| Content-independent obedience | p. 128 |
| Civil justice as grounds for political obligation | p. 132 |
| The Particularity Requirement | p. 132 |
| Public reasons | p. 135 |
| The Obligations of Civil Justice and Unjust States | p. 138 |
| The Polish case | p. 139 |
| The first episode | p. 140 |
| The second episode | p. 148 |
| The third episode | p. 153 |
| The fourth episode | p. 163 |
| Conclusion | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 180 |
| Bibliography | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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ISBN: 9780230360754
ISBN-10: 230360750
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 4th September 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.1
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.405
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