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Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?

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Part of For and Against

Authors:
Christopher Wellman, Georgia State University
John Simmons, University of Virginia

Date Published: August 2005
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521537841

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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.
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“Both participants have played important parts in the debate over political obligation…and each is eminently qualified to represent his side in the narrower debate that takes place between the covers of their coauthored book…One conclusion seems absolutely clear: the book itself is a winner…Wellman and Simmons both deserve praise for the clarity of their writing and the rigor of their arguments, the result of which is a book that is simultaneously accessible to advanced undergraduates and “must reading” for political philosophers with an interest in the problem of political obligation.”
Richard Dagger, Arizona State University, Ethics

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- Date Published: August 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521537841
- length: 216 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 150 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Why I am not an anarchist
2. Is there a duty to obey the law?
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Authors
Christopher Wellman, Georgia State University
John Simmons, University of Virginia