Author: Jules SteinbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
An Examination of the Use of the Idea of a Consent Theory of Political Obligation in Liberal-democratic Political Thought
Author: Jules SteinbergLiberal Loyalty
Author: Anna StilzPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691139148
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Drawing on Kant, Rousseau, and Habermas, Stilz argues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined principles of justice in themselves are grounds for obedience to our particular state and for democratic solidarity with our fellow citizens.
Locke, Rousseau, and the Idea of Consent
Author: Jules SteinbergPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Steinberg addresses such questions as: How did the notion of a social contract develop? What did social contract mean to Locke and Rousseau? Can social contract describe the working basis of representative democracy?
Two Treatises of Government
Author: John LockePublisher:
ISBN: 9787532783083
Category : Liberty
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 391
Book Description
The Consent Theory of Political Obligation
Author: Harry BeranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000704726
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
First published in 1987. The theory that political obligation and authority are derived from the consent of citizens is commonly accepted in the history of Western political thought. It is expressed in the famous assertion of the American Declaration of Independence that governments derive ‘their just powers from the consent of the governed’ and in the constitutions of some Western powers. This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive restatement and defence of consent theory since the 19th Century. It distinguishes consent from contract theory, examines what the actual consent of citizens can consist in and what place it must have in liberal democratic theory. The consent theory’s relationship with ethics is explored and the major objections to the theory are countered. The author points to some political reforms which would increase the proportion of citizens in liberal democracies whose consent places them under political obligation. The book provides an overview of the current state of the consent theory of political obligation and authority.
Western Political Thought
Author: Robert EccleshallPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719035692
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability.
Political Obligations
Author: George KloskoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199256204
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Providing a full defence of the theory of political obligation George Klosko presents arguments based on a number of key principles, as well as commenting on popular attitudes and how the state views them.
The Problem of Political Obligation
Author: Carole PatemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520056503
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
00 Pateman examines the notion of political obligation in relation to the liberal democratic state and presents a vision of participatory democracy as a means to effect a more satisfactory relationship between the citizen and the state. She offers a general assessment of liberal theory and an interpretation of all familiar arguments about political obligation and democratic consent. Pateman examines the notion of political obligation in relation to the liberal democratic state and presents a vision of participatory democracy as a means to effect a more satisfactory relationship between the citizen and the state. She offers a general assessment of liberal theory and an interpretation of all familiar arguments about political obligation and democratic consent.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Political Liberalism
Author: John RawlsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231527535
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. "An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy." —Times Literary Supplement