03001nam 2200613Ia 450 991045573360332120200520144314.01-280-45420-20-19-535404-40-585-30894-2(CKB)111004366529084(EBL)271815(OCoLC)476008609(SSID)ssj0000191769(PQKBManifestationID)11183614(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191769(PQKBWorkID)10186466(PQKB)10841802(MiAaPQ)EBC271815(Au-PeEL)EBL271815(CaPaEBR)ebr10278470(CaONFJC)MIL45420(OCoLC)466426474(EXLCZ)9911100436652908419970730d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiberalism and affirmative obligation[electronic resource] /Patricia SmithNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511528-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.Contents; 1. Positive and Negative Duty in the Liberal Tradition: An Overview; 1. Minimal Morality and the Dark Side of Human Nature; 2. The Traditional Doctrine of Positive and Negative Duty; 3. Four Contemporary Challenges; 4. General Positive Duty: The Scope of Charity; 5. Special Positive Duty: An Ignored Moral Category; 2. Special Circumstances and the Bad Samaritan Exception; 3. The Duty of Charity and the Equivalence Thesis; 4. Family Obligations and the Implications of Membership; 5. Family Membership and Reciprocity; 6. The Complexity of Consent in Legal Theory and Practice7. Consent and Role in Professional Obligation8. Justifying the Obligations of Neighbors and Citizens; 9. Articulating the Scope of Political Obligation; Epilogue: Motivating Cooperative Individualism, or Why a Liberal Individualist Should Accept Collective Solutions to Large-scale Affirmative Obligations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; WConsiders what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice and also account for issues central to liberal democratic society. The author asserts that this would involve the rejection of atomistic individualism.Political obligationLiberalismElectronic books.Political obligation.Liberalism.320.51320/.01/1Smith Patricia G886264MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455733603321Liberalism and affirmative obligation1978919UNINA