The Duty to Obey the Law

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4928082
AutoresDavid Lefkowitz (0000-0003-1890-5935, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen1
Número6
Páginas571-598
Fecha de publicación2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00042.x
OpenAlexW2064455637
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas44

Under what conditions, if any, do those the law addresses have a moral duty or obligation to obey it simply because it is the law? In this essay, I identify five general approaches to carrying out this task, and offer a somewhat detailed discussion of one or two examples of each approach. The approaches studied are: relational-role approaches that appeal to the fact that an agent occupies the role of member in the political community; attempts to ground the duty to obey the law in individual consent or fair play; natural duty approaches; instrumental approaches; and philosophical anarchism, an approach that denies that most subjects of contemporary states have a duty to obey the law simply in virtue of its status as such

Appeal · Duty · Economics · Moral obligation · Natural law · Obligation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Task (project management) · Virtue · Free Will and Agency · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification