Conscience and Conviction - The Case for Civil Disobedience

When is it justified to disobey the law? How should the law respond to instances of conscientious disobedience? This book presents the first full-length philosophical examination of the morality and legality of civil disobedience, and the legitimate responses to civil dissent open to the state.

List of contents

• Introduction


• I. Morality


• 1: Conviction


• 2: Conscience


• 3: Responsibilities


• 4: Rights


• II. Law


• 5: Demands-of-Conviction Defence


• 6: Necessity Defence


• 7: Dialogue


• 8: Punishment

About the author

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).

Summary

When is it justified to disobey the law? How should the law respond to instances of conscientious disobedience? This book presents the first full-length philosophical examination of the morality and legality of civil disobedience, and the legitimate responses to civil dissent open to the state.

Additional text

Kimberley Brownlee's fine bookcelebrates civil disobedience as a potentially vital element in a healthy liberal democracy. She confronts a wide range of the standard objections with confidence, care, clarity and argumentative rigour... her book should become a key work to consult on the topic.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberley Brownlee, Kimberley (Associate Professor of Legal Brownlee, Kimberley (Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy Brownlee, Kimberley (Professor of Philosophy Brownlee, Brownlee Kimberley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780198759461
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875946-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law