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  • Liberalism and Affirmative Obligationby Patricia Smith

    Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 98.00

    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. more...

  • Justice without Bordersby Kok-Chor Tan

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 28.00

    Kok-Chor Tan argues that the cosmopolitan idea of global justice may be understood in such a way that it can accept some forms of nationalist and patriotic commitments without having to abandon its ideal of global equal concern. This accessible, persuasive book will appeal to political theorists and moral philosophers. more...

  • Patriotismby Igor Primoratz; Aleksandar Pavkovic

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95

    This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two. more...

  • Political Obligationby Dudley Knowles

    Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 35.95

    Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual’s claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim obedience. It is a central and ancient problem in political philosophy. In this authoritative introduction, Dudley Knowles frames the problem of obligation in terms of the duties citizens have to the state and each other. Drawing on a wide range of key works in political philosophy, from John Locke, David Hume and G. W. F. Hegel to John Rawls, Michael Sandel and Robert Nozick, Political Obligation: A Critical Introduction is an ideal starting point for those coming to the topic for the first time. Knowles distinguishes the philosophical problem of obligation - which types of argument may successfully ground... more...

  • A Theory of Political Obligationby Margaret Gilbert

    OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 45.00

    Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author 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. The obligations in questionare not moral requirements derived from general moral principles, as is often supposed, but a matter of one's participation in a special kind of commitment: joint commitment. An agreement is sufficient but not necessary to generate such a commitment. Gilbert... more...

  • Political Obligationsby George Klosko

    OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 45.00

    Political Obligations provides a full defense of a theory of political obligation based on the principle of fairness (or fair play), which is widely viewed as the strongest theory of obligation currently available. The work responds to the most important objections to the principle of fairness, and extends a theory based on fairness into a developed 'multiple principle' theory of obligation. In order to establish the need for such a theory, Political Obligations criticizes alternative theories of obligation based on a natural duty of justice and 'reformist' consent, and critically examines the non-state theories of libertarian and philosophical anarchists. The work breaks new ground by providing the first in-depth study of popular... more...

  • The Pledge of Allegianceby Stephanie Macceca

    Shell Education 2006; US$ 6.99

    The Pledge of Allegiance: Poem of Patriotism is a story of some students who are struggling with the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. Even though they say it everyday, they are not quite sure what they are saying. With the help of their teachers and parents, the children soon learn what the pledge means and what it symbolizes about freedom in America. more...

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