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The volume offers an overview of the research, covering contemporary philosophical debates about political obligation and circumstances that raise questions about obeying the law. The chapters address traditional theories of obligation, new approaches, and conclusions from key theorists.
Sommario
- CHAPTER 1: GEORGE KLOSKO: Introduction
- PART I. Conceptual Matters
- CHAPTER 2: MATTHIAS BRINKMANN: Authority and Legitimacy: The Revisionist View
- CHAPTER 3: ALLEN BUCHANAN: Normative and Sociological Legitimacy
- CHAPTER 4: BROOKES BROWN: Political Obligation and the Nature of the State
- CHAPTER 5: BEN BRADFORD and JONATHAN JACKSON: Empirical Perspectives on Legal Obligation and Group Membership: "We are ruling over you, but you are part of this we . . ."
- CHAPTER 6: LAURA VALENTINI: The Content-Independence of Political Obligation
- PART III. HISTORY
- CHAPTER 7: RICHARD KRAUT: Political Obligation in Sophocles and Plato
- CHAPTER 8: SARAH MORTIMER: Christian Traditions
- CHAPTER 9: S. A. LLOYD: Social Contract Tradition
- CHAPTER 10: DANIELLE CHARETTE: David Hume and the Virtue of Allegiance
- CHAPTER 11: HELGA VARDEN: Kant on Political Obligations
- CHAPTER 12: DENNIS DALTON: Gandhi's Theory and Practice of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 13: ALEXANDER LIVINGSTON: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Part IV. CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
- CHAPTER 14: A . JOHN SIMMONS: Political Obligation: The Last Fifty Years of Philosophical Debate
- CHAPTER 15: AMANDA GREENE: Taking Freedom for Granted: Consent, Political Obligation, and the Interest in Voluntary Rule
- CHAPTER 16: RICHARD DAGGER: The Principle of Fair Play
- CHAPTER 17: CHRISTOPHER HEATH WELLMAN and WILLIAM L. BELL: Natural Duty Accounts of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 18: DIANE JESKE: Associative Obligations and Political Obligations
- CHAPTER 19: TONY MANELA: Gratitude and Obligations to the State
- CHAPTER 20: HARRISON FRYE: Respect and Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 21: THOMAS CHRISTIANO: Democracy and Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 22: MASSIMO RENZO: A Pluralist Theory of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 23: NICOLE ROUGHAN: Raz's "Service Conception" of Authority
- CHAPTER 24: MARGARET GILBERT: The Joint Commitment Theory of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 25: NOAM GUR: Cognitive Biases and Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 26: NANCY J HIRSCHMANN: Rethinking Obligation, Rethinking Consent: A Feminist View of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 27: MATT SLEAT: Realism and Political Obligations
- PART V. Applications
- CHAPTER 28: CANDICE DELMAS: Political Obligation and Injustice
- CHAPTER 29: AVIA PASTERNAK: Violent Protests in the Face of Injustice
- CHAPTER 30: ROSS MITTIGA: Climate Change, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Political Obligation
- CHAPTER 31: ALBERTO GIUBILINI: Moral and Political Obligations in a Pandemic
- CHAPTER 32: DAVID MILLER: The Political Obligations of Refugees
- CHAPTER 33: LUCIA M. RAFANELLI: Political Obligations Toward NGOs
- CHAPTER 34: DOROTA MOKROSINSKA: Political Obligation in Unjust States: Poland
- CHAPTER 35: ZOLTON MIKLOSI: Political Obligation in Electoral Authoritarianism: The Case of Hungary
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George Klosko is Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics Emeritus at the University of Virginia. His books include The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation; Political Obligations, and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, which he edited. He has published more than fifty articles in Political Science, Philosophy, and Classics journals, including Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ethics, the American Political Science Review, Classical Quarterly, and Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. He taught at the University of Virginia for forty-one years, and before that at Columbia and Purdue Universities.
