Hobbes on legal authority and political obligation. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Luciano Venezia.
• Authors: Venezia, Luciano, 1979-
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. The Project; 1.2. Method; 1.3. Strategy; 1.4. Textual Evidence; Chapter 2. Coercion, Rational Self-Interest, and Obligation; 2.1. Conflict in the State of Nature; 2.2. Anti-Social Passions and Sanctions for Non-Compliance; 2.3. Legal Coercion, Private Good, and the Common Good; 2.4. The End of the Story?; 2.5. Lloyd's Account; Chapter 3. The Authority of Law; 3.1. The Concept of Authority; 3.2. Even For the Rationally and Morally Perfect; 3.3. The Command Theory of Law; 3.4. Arbitration; 3.5. Beliefs or Actions?; Chapter 4. Political Obligation; 4.1. Egoism; 4.2. Moral Reasons in Hobbes?; 4.3. The Theory of Political Obligation; 4.4. The Mutual Containment Thesis; 4.5. The Rationale for Political Disobedience; Chapter 5. Contractarianism; 5.1. Hobbes' Account: An Interpretation; 5.2. What Difference does the Sovereign Make?; 5.3. Contractual Obligation: Prudential or Deontological?; 5.4. Obligation and Reason; Chapter 6. The Hobbesian Analysis of Contracts under Coercion: A Critique; 6.1. Hobbes on Voluntariness, Coercion, and Obligation; 6.2. Coercion, Rationality and Voluntariness; 6.3. Rationality without Voluntariness; 6.4. Conclusion; Final Remarks; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 340.112; Natural law; Duress (Law); Liberty of contract; Natural obligations; Effectiveness and validity of law; History & Surveys/Medieval; Social; Government/General; Philosophy; Political control & freedoms; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137490261; 1137490268
• Related ISBNs: 9781137490247
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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