Liberalism and affirmative obligation
1998, First Edition. New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #416792
ISBN: 0195115287
Physical description; xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Positive and Negative Duty in the Liberal Tradition: An Overview -- Part I: Clarifying General Positive Duty : 2. Special Circumstances and the Bad Samaritan Exception; 3. The Duty of Charity and the Equivalence Thesis -- Part II: Special Positive Duty and Natural Relations : 4. Family Obligations and the Implications of Membership; 5. Family Membership and Reciprocity -- Part III: Special Positive Duty and Contractual Relations : 6. The Complexity of Consent in Legal Theory and Practice; 7. Consent and Role in Professional Obligation -- Part IV: Political Obligation and Special Positive Duty : 8. 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. Subjects; Liberalism. Political obligation. Free enterprise. Philosophy Political.
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