A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by Rawls John

Author:Rawls, John [Rawls, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2005-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER VI. DUTY AND OBLIGATION

In the two preceding chapters I have discussed the principles of justice for institutions. I now wish to take up the principles of natural duty and obligation that apply to individuals. The first two sections examine the reasons why these principles would be chosen in the original position and their role in making social cooperation stable. A brief discussion of promising and the principle of fidelity is included. For the most part, however, I shall study the implications of these principles for the theory of political duty and obligation within a constitutional framework. This seems the best way to explain their sense and content for the purposes of a theory of justice. In particular, an account of the special case of civil disobedience is sketched which connects it with the problem of majority rule and the grounds for complying with unjust laws. Civil disobedience is contrasted with other forms of noncompliance such as conscientious refusal in order to bring out its special role in stabilizing a nearly just democratic regime.

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