Liberalism and affirmative obligation / / Patricia Smith

• Autore: Smith Patricia G
• 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: Previously issued in print: 1998.
• 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: With this volume, Patricia Smith considers what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice as well as accounting for issues central to liberal democratic society.
• 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.: 9910814290903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.