Justification and Legitimacy
Essays on Rights and Obligations
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- Author: A. John Simmons, University of Virginia
- Date Published: October 2000
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521790161
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The characteristic features of clear argumentation and careful scholarship that have been hallmarks of the philosophy of A. John Simmons are everywhere evident in this collection. The essays focus on the problems of political obligation and state legitimacy as well as on historical theories of property and justice. Cumulatively the collection presents a distinctive social and political philosophy, exploring the nature of our most fundamental rights and obligations, and displaying the power and plausibility of Lockean ideal theory.
Read more- Prominent and highly respected political and legal philosopher
- Cross over between philosophy, politics, and law generally does well for us
- Author has appeal as a successor and interpreter of Locke
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"...there is no question that this is an extraordinarily fine collection of essays. Whatever one thinks of the Lockean approach, every political theorist should read this book; it is clearly written, tightly argued, and concerns core issues in political philosophy. In short, it is a model of how political philosophy should be done." Ethics
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- Date Published: October 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521790161
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.529kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The principle of fair play
2. Fair play and political obligation: twenty years later
3. The obligations of citizens and the justification of conscription
4. Associative political obligations
5. External justifications and institutional roles
6. Philosophical anarchism
7. Justification and legitimacy
8. 'Denisons' and 'Aliens': Locke's problem of political consent
9. Human rights and world citizenship: the universality of Human Rights in Kant and Locke
10. Original-acquisition justifications of private property
11. Historical rights and fair shares
12. Makers' rights.
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