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Legal and Political Obligation
George R. Wright
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Description for Legal and Political Obligation
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
This book focuses upon the perennial question of the existence and nature of an obligation to obey the law. Leading writers have, at one time or another, emphasized considerations such as gratitude, 'divine ordering,' prudence, contract, autonomy, and utility in seeking to justify, or to deny any justification for, some sort of obligation to obey the positive law. The book provides relevant selections from a sampling of the historical approaches to legal obligation taken by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Thoreau, Bentham, Marx and Engels, and Martin Luther King, Jr. These classical discussions are ... Read more
This book focuses upon the perennial question of the existence and nature of an obligation to obey the law. Leading writers have, at one time or another, emphasized considerations such as gratitude, 'divine ordering,' prudence, contract, autonomy, and utility in seeking to justify, or to deny any justification for, some sort of obligation to obey the positive law. The book provides relevant selections from a sampling of the historical approaches to legal obligation taken by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Thoreau, Bentham, Marx and Engels, and Martin Luther King, Jr. These classical discussions are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819185969
SKU
V9780819185969
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99-15
About George R. Wright
R. George Wright is Professor at the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.
Reviews for Legal and Political Obligation
Professor Wright combines a disciplined use of original sources with compact intelligible commentary in a source book of great practical value. His questions are provocative and his style is clean and readable.
Charles E. Rice, Notre Dame Law School With this book, the teacher and student have at hand everything they need for a thoughtful study of one ... Read more
Charles E. Rice, Notre Dame Law School With this book, the teacher and student have at hand everything they need for a thoughtful study of one ... Read more