Liberalism and affirmative obligation [[electronic resource] /] / Patricia Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Patricia G
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| Titolo: |
Liberalism and affirmative obligation [[electronic resource] /] / Patricia Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.51 |
| 320/.01/1 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Political obligation |
| Liberalism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Practice |
| 7. 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; W | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Considers 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Liberalism and affirmative obligation |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773076-0 |
| 1-280-45420-2 | |
| 0-19-535404-4 | |
| 0-585-30894-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778720603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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