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Liberalism and affirmative obligation /
The task before the moderate liberal is to consider what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be in order to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice and also account for long-standing institutions that are central to liberal democratic society. In this b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Positive and negative duty in the liberal tradition : an overview
- Part I. Clarifying general positive duty ; Special circumstances and the bad Samaritan exception
- The duty of charity and the equivalence thesis
- Part II. Special positive duty and natural relations ; Family obligations and the implications of membership
- Family membership and reciprocity
- Part III. Special positive duty and contractual relations ; The complexity of consent in legal theory and practice
- Consent and role in professional obligation
- Part IV. Political obligation as special positive duty ; Justifying the obligations of neighbors and citizens
- Articulating the scope of political obligation
- Epilogue : Motivating cooperative individualism, or why a liberal individualist should accept collective solutions to large-scale affirmative obligations.