A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil Delmas Candice
A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil Delmas Candice What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a…
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A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil Delmas Candice
What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. How far should we go to fight it?
But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it.Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice. We
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