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The idea of political obligation is philosophical, focusing on the morality of laws, rather than justice. Discussion of political obligation grew during the era of social contract theory, in which Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were crucial in explaining the idea and its importance. Political obligation is distinct from legal obligation.
Hobbes’s concept of moral obligation stems from the assumption that humans have a fundamental obligation to follow the laws of nature and all obligations stem from nature. [8] His reasoning for this is premised upon the beliefs of natural law; that the moral standards or reasoning that govern behaviour can be drawn from eternal truths ...
A political obligation is a requirement for the citizens of a society to follow the laws of that society. [9] There are philosophical issues, however, about whether a citizen should follow a law simply because it is a law. There are various views about whether a political obligation is a moral obligation.
Moral Principles and Political Obligations (1979) Alan John Simmons (born May 4, 1950) is an American political philosopher. Simmons graduated from Princeton University and completed a master's degree and doctorate from Cornell University .
John Petrov Plamenatz (born as Jovan Petrov Plamenac; Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Петров Пламенац; 16 May 1912 – 19 February 1975) was a Montenegrin political philosopher, who spent most of his academic life at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his analysis of political obligation and his theory of democracy.
The Development of Plato’s Political Theory (Methuen, 1986; Second Edition, Oxford, 2006) The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992) Political Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2005) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2011)
Lectures on Kant, on Logic, on the Principles of Political Obligation; Miscellanies, preceded by a full Memoir by the Editor. [7] All three volumes are available for download at Internet Archive. The Principles of Political Obligation was afterwards published in separate form.
These obligations may be of either a legal or moral character. The notion of positive and negative rights may also be applied to liberty rights . To take an example involving two parties in a court of law : Adrian has a negative right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is prohibited to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x .