Attempts to supplement voluntarism with fair-play or natural duty accounts abandon voluntarism itself, confirming that voluntarism alone cannot ground special political obligations.
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special political obligations(Political philosophy)
Obligations of obedience to the laws of a particular government that bind a specific individual, as distinct from general moral obligations that apply to all persons.
voluntarism(Used here in a moral/theological context, likely referring to divine command theory or the view that moral facts depend on an act of will)
A metaethical view whose implications conflict with necessary moral and logical truths, such as the wrongness of punishing an innocent person for another's wrongdoing