Justification and Legitimacy
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Justification and Legitimacy

Essays on Rights and Obligations

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Justification and Legitimacy

Essays on Rights and Obligations

About this book

A. John Simmons is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers. His work on political obligation is regarded as definitive and he is also internationally respected as an interpreter of John Locke. The characteristic features of clear argumentation and careful scholarship that have been hallmarks of his philosophy are everywhere evident in this collection. The essays focus on the problems of political obligation and state legitimacy as well as on historical theories of property and justice. Cumulatively the collection presents a distinctive social and political philosophy, exploring the nature of our most fundamental rights and obligations, and displaying the power and plausibility of Lockean ideal theory.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontmatter
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. The Principle of Fair Play
  7. Fair Play and Political Obligation: Twenty Years Later
  8. The Obligations of Citizens and the Justification of Conscription
  9. Associative Political Obligations
  10. External Justifications and Institutional Roles
  11. Philosophical Anarchism
  12. Justification and Legitimacy
  13. “Denisons” and “Aliens”: Locke's Problem of Political Consent
  14. Human Rights and World Citizenship: The Universality of Human Rights in Kant and Locke
  15. Original-Acquisition Justifications of Private Property
  16. Historical Rights and Fair Shares
  17. Makers' Rights
  18. Index