Liberalism and affirmative obligation / Patricia Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Patricia, 1956- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism.

Political obligation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With this volume, Patricia Smith considers what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice as well as accounting for issues central to liberal democratic society.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Positive and Negative Duty in the Liberal Tradition: An Overview; 1. Minimal Morality and the Dark Side of Human Nature; 2. The Traditional Doctrine of Positive and Negative Duty; 3. Four Contemporary Challenges; 4. General Positive Duty: The Scope of Charity; 5. Special Positive Duty: An Ignored Moral Category; 2. Special Circumstances and the Bad Samaritan Exception; 3. The Duty of Charity and the Equivalence Thesis; 4. Family Obligations and the Implications of Membership; 5. Family Membership and Reciprocity; 6. The Complexity of Consent in Legal Theory and Practice

7. Consent and Role in Professional Obligation8. Justifying the Obligations of Neighbors and Citizens; 9. Articulating the Scope of Political Obligation; Epilogue: Motivating Cooperative Individualism, or Why a Liberal Individualist Should Accept Collective Solutions to Large-scale Affirmative Obligations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773076-0

1-280-45420-2

0-19-535404-4

0-585-30894-2

OCLC:

476008609