Justification and Legitimacy Essays on Rights and Obligations

Name: Justification and Legitimacy Essays on Rights and Obligations
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ISBN: 9780521793650

ISBN-10: 0521793653

ISBN-13: 9780521793650

Edition: 2001

Authors: A. John Simmons

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A. John Simmons is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers. His work on political obligation is regarded as definitive and he is also internationally respected as an interpreter of John Locke. The characteristic features of clear argumentation and careful scholarship that have been hallmarks of his philosophy 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,…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



The principle of fair play



Fair play and political obligation: twenty years later



The obligations of citizens and the justification of conscription



Associative political obligations



External justifications and institutional roles



Philosophical anarchism



Justification and legitimacy



'Denisons' and 'Aliens': Locke's problem of political consent



Human rights and world citizenship: the universality of Human Rights in Kant and Locke



Original-acquisition justifications of private property



Historical rights and fair shares



Makers' rights