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9780521537841

Is There A Duty To Obey The Law?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521537841

  • ISBN10:

    0521537843

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-01
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The central question in political philosophy is whether political states have the right to coerce their constituents and whether citizens have a moral duty to obey the commands of their state. Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons defend opposing answers to this question. Wellman bases his argument on Samaritan obligations to perform easy rescues. Simmons counters that this, and all other attempts to explain our duty to obey the law, will fail.

Author Biography

A. John Simmons is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Samaritanism and the Duty to Obey the Law
Christopher Heath Wellman
Why I Am Not an Anarchist
3(27)
Doing One's Fair Share
30(24)
Just and Unjust Laws
54(20)
Confronting Injustice
74(19)
The Duty to Obey and Our Natural Moral Duties
A. John Simmons
The Problem and Its Significance
93(9)
The Theories
102(19)
Natural Duties and the Duty to Obey the Law
121(68)
Conclusions
189(8)
Index 197

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