Luciano Venezia

Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation. According to the account developed in the book, the directives issued by the sovereign as introducing authoritative requirements, so that subjects are morally obligated to obey them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 161
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137490254
• Artikelnr.: 43970333

Autorenporträt

Luciano Venezia is Assistant Research Fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Instructor at the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. He has a MA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He specializes in political and legal philosophy as well as the history of political thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1. The Project 1.2. Method 1.3. Strategy 1.4.
Textual Evidence Chapter 2. Coercion, Rational Self-Interest, and
Obligation 2.1. Conflict in the State of Nature 2.2. Anti-Social Passions
and Sanctions for Non-Compliance 2.3. Legal Coercion, Private Good, and the
Common Good 2.4. The End of the Story? 2.5. Lloyd's Account Chapter 3. The
Authority of Law 3.1. The Concept of Authority 3.2. Even For the Rationally
and Morally Perfect 3.3. The Command Theory of Law 3.4. Arbitration 3.5.
Beliefs or Actions? Chapter 4. Political Obligation 4.1. Egoism 4.2. Moral
Reasons in Hobbes? 4.3. The Theory of Political Obligation 4.4. The Mutual
Containment Thesis 4.5. The Rationale for Political Disobedience Chapter 5.
Contractarianism 5.1. Hobbes' Account: An Interpretation 5.2. What
Difference does the Sovereign Make? 5.3. Contractual Obligation: Prudential
or Deontological? 5.4. Obligation and Reason Chapter 6. The Hobbesian
Analysis of Contracts under Coercion: A Critique 6.1. Hobbes on
Voluntariness, Coercion, and Obligation 6.2. Coercion, Rationality and
Voluntariness 6.3. Rationality without Voluntariness 6.4. Conclusion Final
Remarks Bibliography