UID:
edocfu_9959228321502883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-773076-0
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1-280-45420-2
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0-19-535404-4
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0-585-30894-2
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1998.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511528-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195115284.001.0001
