Political Obligation [antikvár]

IntroductionUnder what conditions are obedience and disobediencerequired or justified? To what or to whom is obedienceor disobedience owed? What are the differences between au-thority and power and between legitimate and illegitimategovernment? What is the relationship between having an ob-ligation and having freedom to act? What are the similaritiesand differences among political, legal, and moral obligations?The foregoing are among the questions that arise underthe rubric of political obligation. Their importance, both fromthe standpoint of the practical concerns of the citizen andthe theoretical concerns of the political philosopher, requiresno demonstration.These questions have been discussed by most of the greatpolitical philosophers of the western tradition. Much can begained by examining their discussions and we will do so atvarious junctures in this work. But the concern of the greatpolitical philosophers with these questions, and the answersthey gave to them, although no doubt heavily influenced bythe discussions of thinkers who preceded them, were rootedin features of the political societies in which they lived and