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Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? (Hardcover)
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Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? (Hardcover)
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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. In
this 2005 book, Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons
defend opposing answers to this question. Wellman bases his
argument on samaritan obligations to perform easy rescues, arguing
that each of us has a moral duty to obey the law as his or her fair
share of the communal samaritan chore of rescuing our compatriots
from the perils of the state of nature. Simmons counters that this,
and all other attempts to explain our duty to obey the law, fail.
He defends a position of philosophical anarchism, the view that no
existing state is legitimate and that there is no strong moral
presumption in favor of obedience to, or compliance with, any
existing state.
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