Add to ORKGAt what point, asks John Rawls in his celebrated recent book, A Theory of Justice, to which I shall make further reference, does the duty to comply with laws enacted by a legislative majority . . . cease to be binding in view of the right to defend one\u27s liberties and the duty to oppose injustice? This question involves the nature and limits of majority rule. For this reason the problem of civil disobedience is a crucial test case for any theory of the moral basis of democracy
While many contemporary political philosophers agree that citizens of a legitimate state enjoy a mor...
Edmund Burke once noted that the rebelliousness of colonial America was largely a consequence of the...
America is a country founded on revolution. In fact, our founding fathers valued this right to disse...
Political obligations require citizens to obey states’ laws. In the case of morally objectionable la...
Though ultimately seeking more just law, civil disobedience still entails the breaching of a law. Fo...
Investigating civil disobedience from a liberal perspective, the working thread through the thought ...
The history of disobedience is as lengthy as the history of legislation. For as long as there have b...
John Rawls is a central figure in contemporary philosophical and theoretical discussions of civil di...
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVES Rawls’s most careful and extended consideration in A Theory of Justice. ...
John Rawls develops and precisely defines the concept of civil disobedience which had emerged from t...
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Do citizens of any modern state have a general duty to acknowledge its authority to determine for th...
Contemporary philosophical and theoretical discussions of civil disobedience hope to contribute to s...
This article is based on a speech delivered by Judge Frank M.Johnson, Jr. to the faculty and student...
In this paper I critically assess David Lefkowitz’s view that the right to political participation e...
While many contemporary political philosophers agree that citizens of a legitimate state enjoy a mor...
Edmund Burke once noted that the rebelliousness of colonial America was largely a consequence of the...
America is a country founded on revolution. In fact, our founding fathers valued this right to disse...
Political obligations require citizens to obey states’ laws. In the case of morally objectionable la...
Though ultimately seeking more just law, civil disobedience still entails the breaching of a law. Fo...
Investigating civil disobedience from a liberal perspective, the working thread through the thought ...
The history of disobedience is as lengthy as the history of legislation. For as long as there have b...
John Rawls is a central figure in contemporary philosophical and theoretical discussions of civil di...
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVES Rawls’s most careful and extended consideration in A Theory of Justice. ...
John Rawls develops and precisely defines the concept of civil disobedience which had emerged from t...
In this essay I argue that citizens of a liberal-democratic state, one that I argue has a morally ju...
Do citizens of any modern state have a general duty to acknowledge its authority to determine for th...
Contemporary philosophical and theoretical discussions of civil disobedience hope to contribute to s...
This article is based on a speech delivered by Judge Frank M.Johnson, Jr. to the faculty and student...
In this paper I critically assess David Lefkowitz’s view that the right to political participation e...
While many contemporary political philosophers agree that citizens of a legitimate state enjoy a mor...
Edmund Burke once noted that the rebelliousness of colonial America was largely a consequence of the...
America is a country founded on revolution. In fact, our founding fathers valued this right to disse...