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Author
D. Mokrosińska
Year
2013
Title
What is political about political obligation? A neglected lesson from consent theory
Journal
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Volume | Issue number
16 | 1
Pages (from-to)
88-108
Document type
Article
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
Institute
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
Much of the debate concerning political obligation deals with the question of which, if any, moral principles could make obedience to the directives of the government a matter of obligation. What makes political obligation political has not received attention in the literature on the topic. In this article I argue that the lack of systematic reflection on what makes political obligation political is responsible for the failure of a number of influential theories of political obligation. I demonstrate this failure using the consent theory of political obligation as my major example. I conclude my analysis by formulating some positive conditions that a successful principle of political obligation should satisfy.
URL
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Language
English
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.374575

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