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Political Philosophy Philosophy 2B - Ray Critch Lecture 8 - Obligations

Political Philosophy Philosophy 2B - Ray Critch Lecture 8 - Obligations. In this lecture What is the basic question? What, if anything, accounts for political obligations?. Basic Questions. What is the basic question of political obligation? Candidates:

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Political Philosophy Philosophy 2B - Ray Critch Lecture 8 - Obligations

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  1. Political PhilosophyPhilosophy 2B - Ray CritchLecture 8 - Obligations In this lecture What is the basic question? What, if anything, accounts for political obligations?

  2. Basic Questions • What is the basic question of political obligation? • Candidates: • Do I have political obligations at all? • What political obligations do I have? • How do I come to have political obligations? • Interconnected

  3. Basic Questions • Political Obligations? • Obligations arising from political sources • - i.e. the state. • States work how? Through laws. • Direct: Political Obligations = Obligations to obey the law • The direct question: What obligation do I have to obey the law?

  4. Accounts of Political Obligation • The Philosophical Anarchist • There is no [sound/valid] obligation to obey the law. • Two Variations • A Priori version • Usually grounded on liberty or autonomy • Robert Paul Wolff - In Defence of Anarchism • Negative version • A. J. Simmonds

  5. Accounts of Political Obligation • The Philosophical Anarchist • Problems • Characterization of Autonomy? • Exclusivity of Autonomy? • Hypocrisy?

  6. Accounts of Political Obligation • Contractualism • Obligations arise through means analogous to how contractual obligations arise • ‘Voluntary’ • Different kinds of voluntary • 1 - Strict Voluntarism - no tacit consent. • 2 - Normal Voluntarism - tacit consent allowed. • 3 - Voluntarism-light - reasonableness.

  7. Accounts of Political Obligation • Contractualism • Objections • Role of autonomy? • Does the importance of autonomy make most contractualists simply inconsistent anarchists? • Non-voluntary obligations? • Clear in many moral contexts - what about some political contexts?

  8. Accounts of Political Obligation • Social Role Approach • Obligations arise through my relationships with others. • Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother … • Neighbour, Citizen? • Mechanism • Semantic? • Prior moral duty?

  9. Accounts of Political Obligation • Social Role Approach • Objections • Antiquated Roles • A social role approach needs to account for changes in role, including elimination. • Justification • Why is citizenship like brotherhood?

  10. Conclusion • Making a plausible case • Poach from contractualism and social role. • Explain non-voluntary obligations • Account for change • Account for the importance, but not exclusive importance, of autonomy

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