A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society

by Margaret Gilbert (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $148.51

  Beginning with argued accounts of social groups and political societies, this work argues that in central, standard senses of the relevant terms membership in a political society in and of itself obligates one to support that society's political institutions. It is useful for political philosophers and theorists.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $86.52

  Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the law tells me to do? She argues a provocative and compelling case in favour of citizens' obligations to the state, while examining how these can be squared with self-interest and other competing considerations.